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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2011-01-15 10:54:58 -0500
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2011-01-15 11:49:26 -0500
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make the description of tolen_asserts more dire
We have a CVE # for this bug.
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o Major bugfixes (security)
- Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
- corruption. Since the contents of the corruption would need to be
- the output of an RSA decryption, we do not think this is easy to
- turn in to a remote code execution attack, but everybody should
- upgrade anyway. Found by debuger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.10-rc.
+ corruption. This bug potentially allows remote code execution
+ attacks. Found by debuger. Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
+ 0.1.2.10-rc.
o Defensive programming
- Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.