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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2016-01-27 12:26:02 -0500
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2016-01-27 12:32:41 -0500
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avoid integer overflow in and around smartlist_ensure_capacity.
This closes bug 18162; bugfix on a45b1315909c9, which fixed a related issue long ago. In addition to the #18162 issues, this fixes a signed integer overflow in smarltist_add_all(), which is probably not so great either.
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+ o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
+
+ - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
+ a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug #18162;
+ bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug
+ incompletely. Reported by Guido Vranken.
+