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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2016-10-17 14:51:45 -0400 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2016-10-17 14:51:45 -0400 |
| commit | 1a7488106326d2327fc24f32b13979b7029b813b (patch) | |
| tree | 196d2dd54c0e9c68649b1c819a2042d1faa46fc5 /changes | |
| parent | eae0c00ddaa8ee29c345b08773db28dd29005e42 (diff) | |
| parent | 1df114330e6c11865f0283772395ef02359ba5a0 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'maint-0.2.8'
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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). + |