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openSUSE Security Update : tor (openSUSE-2021-461)

high Nessus Plugin ID 148066

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for tor fixes the following issues :

tor was updated to 0.4.5.7

- https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2021-March/000216.html

 - Fix 2 denial of service security issues (boo#1183726)

 + Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable information to disk (CVE-2021-28089)

 + Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus document that could be used to crash a directory authority (CVE-2021-28090)

 - Ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location Database

Solution

Update the affected tor packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1183726

http://www.nessus.org/u?282a2bf5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 148066

File Name: openSUSE-2021-461.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/24/2021

Updated: 5/10/2022

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28090

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28089

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tor, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tor-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tor-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28089, CVE-2021-28090