#1127796 tor-geoipdb 0.4.8.22-1 will break meek, snowflake, and webtunnel when torrc excludes US nodes

Package:
tor-geoipdb
Source:
tor-geoipdb
Submitter:
Wregyek
Date:
2026-10-17 14:59:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1127796#5
Date:
2026-02-13 05:22:55 UTC
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To:
Dear Maintainer,

As reported on https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/41205 , tor-
geoipdb 0.4.8.22-1 erroneously marks 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24,
203.0.113.0/24 and 2001:db8::/32, which are ranges specifically reserved for
documentation and examples only, and used by meek, snowflake, and webtunnel as
fake address, belonging to US, making a tor user with ExcludeNodes {us} in
their torrc unable to use any of these bridges.

The patch mentioned in the upstream bug report above could be used as a hot fix
for the 0.4.8.22 release. (already done locally)
#1127796#10
Date:
2026-10-17 14:56:01 UTC
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To:
Debian oldstable (bookworm) has tor version 0.4.9.11
Debian stable (trixie) and debian unstable have tor version 0.4.9.14

The problem no longer exists in those versions.

Closing.