Software update: Tor Browser 12.5.4

Version 12.5.4 of Tor Browser has been released. Tor stands for The Onion Router and is a network that can be used to surf the Internet fairly anonymously. All users’ TCP traffic is routed through different Tor routers, after which it is virtually impossible for the recipient to find out who the original sender was. That information is still present within the Tor network, so that answers, of course also via the system of routers, ultimately arrive at the right place. The release notes for this release look like this:

New Release: Tor Browser 12.5.4

This release updates Firefox and GeckoView to 102.15.1esr and fixes CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in libwebp. The full changelog since Tor Browser 12.5.3 is:

All Platforms

• Updated Translations
• Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1w
• Bug tor browser#42084: Race condition with language preferences may make spoof_english ineffective
• Bug tor browser#42090: Rebase release onto 102.15.1esr

Windows + macOS + Linux

• Updated Firefox to 102.15.1esr

Android

• Updated GeckoView to 102.15.1esr

BuildSystem

• All Platforms
  • Updated Go to 1.20.8