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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2021-03-15 08:54:00 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2021-03-15 08:54:00 -0400
commita6533af9e8d90fda13180064e98b49ac3c3cdf86 (patch)
tree3225f46afa2771ef283fec2855b545449a289677
parent7c5a67ccd983bb028d21a5e8aa48b4cd9d6a8a1c (diff)
parent2eb900f7e2ca64e6ce16fc86410cafd935e7cd1e (diff)
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Merge branch 'maint-0.4.4' into maint-0.4.5
-rw-r--r--changes/ticket40286_minimal7
-rw-r--r--src/feature/dirparse/unparseable.c7
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/changes/ticket40286_minimal b/changes/ticket40286_minimal
index b8669debaa..6a04ca79eb 100644
--- a/changes/ticket40286_minimal
+++ b/changes/ticket40286_minimal
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
- o Major bugfixes (denial of service):
+ o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
- Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
- in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage.
- Fixes bug 40286; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
+ in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
+ bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as
+ TROVE-2021-001 and CVE-2021-28089.
diff --git a/src/feature/dirparse/unparseable.c b/src/feature/dirparse/unparseable.c
index da3c80e383..a91148a661 100644
--- a/src/feature/dirparse/unparseable.c
+++ b/src/feature/dirparse/unparseable.c
@@ -498,8 +498,11 @@ dump_desc,(const char *desc, const char *type))
tor_assert(desc);
tor_assert(type);
#ifndef TOR_UNIT_TESTS
- /* On older versions of Tor we are disabling this function, since it
- * can be called with strings that are far too long. */
+ /* For now, we are disabling this function, since it can be called with
+ * strings that are far too long. We can turn it back on if we fix it
+ * someday, but we'd need to give it a length argument. A likelier
+ * resolution here is simply to remove this module entirely. See tor#40286
+ * for background. */
if (1)
return;
#endif