commit 746c4b3cdd54cab61e626965bd10ff600b4827e7 Author: Roger Dingledine arma@torproject.org Date: Tue Sep 4 20:59:56 2012 -0400

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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index bdce206..3c63e10 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,96 @@ +Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05 + Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x + series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where + we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor + consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly, + and cleans up other smaller issues. + + o Major bugfixes (security): + - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients + could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster + than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network, + or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on + entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- + from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed + this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271. + Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work. + - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without + this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal + network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug + 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. + - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an + address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote + assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to + allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix + on 0.2.1.10-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes: + - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting + the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family + declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first + piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. + - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running + as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence + of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay, + even though our new listener code would correctly not open any + ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also + fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes: + - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can + occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS + requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1. + - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc. + Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. + - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build + timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them + and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where + clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because + the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743; + bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static + 30 seconds. + - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor + consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a + microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on + 0.2.2.6-alpha. + - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and + "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay + to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0" + on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug + 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. + - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work + when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously, + they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were + wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. + - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of + the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors + where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves + ticket 6514. + + o Minor bugfixes (log messages): + - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info" + severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never + anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs + from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. + - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get + them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction + state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high + circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice + messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug + 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta. + - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus + entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time + we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes + the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc. + + o Minor features: + - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic + change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly + uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423. + - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files. + Resolves ticket 6732. + + Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing attack that could in theory leak path information.