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| author | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2017-02-13 15:28:50 -0500 |
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| committer | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2017-02-13 15:28:50 -0500 |
| commit | 5c4235888af142b72aa6b88737bcf1020797e35c (patch) | |
| tree | bc06f4829576b614e1e095b7092740033a0860aa | |
| parent | 75fe218b166b4d4e46b50205104e9eeaa136e904 (diff) | |
| parent | e778a411b9e75ad2c1b46a6624d586a6f4a0c554 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'maint-0.2.6' into maint-0.2.7
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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). + |