OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21660-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2026-08-25 20:46 - Updated: 2026-09-17 17:42
Summary
Security update for tor
Severity
Important
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for tor
Description of the patch: This update for tor fixes the following issues: Changes in tor: - Update to 0.4.9.11 * Major bugfixes + onion services: Prevent a race condition (boo#1275918, CVE-2026-77638) + client: no longer assert and exit if an onion service encodes an all-zero public key for one of its introduction points + directory authorities: Stop allowing 0 as a port in exit policy lines + security, conflux: Fix a use-after-free (and potential double free) (boo#1275919, CVE-2026-77587, TROVE-2026-026) - Update to 0.4.9.10 * Major bugfixes + conflux, security: Reject a CONFLUX_LINK cell that arrives on a circuit which already has attached streams. (boo#1275920, CVE-2026-77584, TROVE-2026-025) + client: Resume warning about unsafe socks protocols when SafeSocks is not set. Also resume warning every time when TestSocks is set. + Make clients more consistently expire entry guards 48 to 60 days after they are first used.
Patchnames: openSUSE-Leap-16.0-packagehub-533
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:tor-0:0.4.9.11-bp160.1.1.aarch64
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:tor-0:0.4.9.11-bp160.1.1.ppc64le
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:tor-0:0.4.9.11-bp160.1.1.s390x
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:tor-0:0.4.9.11-bp160.1.1.x86_64
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact important
Affected products
Recommended 4 products, the same list as for CVE-2026-77584
Threats
Impact important
Affected products
Recommended 4 products, the same list as for CVE-2026-77584
Threats
Impact critical

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