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+ 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).
+