openSUSE Security Update : tor (openSUSE-2015-569)

low Nessus Plugin ID 85838

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Tor was updated to fix one logging privacy issue.

The following issue was fixed :

- Malformed hostnames in socks5 requests were written to the log regardless of SafeLogging option (CWE-532) [boo#943362]

Solution

Update the affected tor packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=943362

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 85838

File Name: openSUSE-2015-569.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/8/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tor, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tor-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tor-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2015