Mixed pages - serious bug of tor

slush slush at centrum.cz
Thu Jul 17 10:27:09 UTC 2008


Hi to all again,

because it looks like conference did not receive emails with attachments, Im
resending my initial email about problem I found. Attachments from original
email are here:
http://www.slush.cz/centrumyahoo.png
http://www.slush.cz/centrum.png
http://www.slush.cz/centrumok.png

Regards,
Marek

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:16 AM, slush <slush at centrum.cz> wrote:

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> Hi all,
>
> I dont have better contact (I cannot find any bugzilla for Tor), but I
> have to say, that there is serious problem in Tor (using last 0.2.0.30
> version). It looks like buffer overflow, but I dont know, if it is
> problem of client or exit node (I dont suspect relays).
>
> In attachment, you can see three screenshot of the same page. On two
> of that, there are big artefacts from other pages (first of them is
> yahoo - see "Yahoo privacy policy", second is unknown - Serbia? -
> website). Because Im not using yahoo and I dont speak Serbia, these
> pages are not from my cache (latest stable Opera without any plugin).
>
> On third screenshot is original look&feel of centrum.cz, one of
> biggest portal in Czech Republic. It is almost impossible, that this
> is problem on their side. I hear about this Tor problem before weeks,
> but I did not believe that.
>
> Some IMPORTANT additional info. I found this bug when I broke my
> program using Tor, that he created very much circuits thru Tor (~ 1000
> circuits at the same time). I think it is very important for this
> description. On other case, I created them using standard Tor
> interface (extend circuit command on tor controller) and Tor did not
> say me about any problem. So it is definitely bug of tor (even if
> suspect, that 1000 circuits are not standard behaviour).
>
> Unfortunately, I dont know, which exit node serves me when error
> occured, so I dont know version of exit node :(
>
> Regards,
> slush (admin of tor relays slush and mwserver)
>
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