Niels Hesse:
Please excuse my ignorance. I saw the mention of a patch in the recent tor blog post. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-weekly-news-%E2%80%94-september-4th-201...
How does one apply that?
If you don't know already, it's probably better to simply wait a little bit. Everyone is working hard at this very moment to ready some useful code to mitigate the issues we are seeing. Expect a release soon.
Otherwise, it means using Git to retrieve the right branch, and manually build tor. But kittens might get hurt until the code is ironed out.