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| author | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2017-02-13 15:27:57 -0500 |
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| committer | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2017-02-13 15:27:57 -0500 |
| commit | e778a411b9e75ad2c1b46a6624d586a6f4a0c554 (patch) | |
| tree | 9947f8dd3e370e8a6f42a849c80e3c2429413bd0 | |
| parent | 43c18b1b7a1a10d36e16393b9f35b519f1c40fa9 (diff) | |
| parent | 144ec3d58cd7358e6563023737a5f91844db93b0 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'maint-0.2.5' into maint-0.2.6
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diff --git a/changes/bug20384 b/changes/bug20384 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..591015ad94 --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/bug20384 @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ + o Major features (security fixes): + - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents + of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At + least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used + versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash + most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler + hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor, + though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket + 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001). + |