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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2016-12-20 18:23:19 -0500 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2016-12-20 18:23:19 -0500 |
| commit | 2673b4b7a87bbdc880dd235f490dfb7b8f3c64c9 (patch) | |
| tree | f56513e810222c8dd1af0c6015b6b5b0a37de642 /changes | |
| parent | a9c8a5ff18c1944ddcea0116419edc2f199583b8 (diff) | |
| parent | b6227edae1d8318b694029800a26e17a2a960af5 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'maint-0.2.6' into maint-0.2.7
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diff --git a/changes/buf-sentinel b/changes/buf-sentinel new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7c5b829c19 --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/buf-sentinel @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ + 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). + |