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@@ -1,3 +1,481 @@ +Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15 + Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This + series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and + implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion + services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and + controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and + performance issues. + + Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine + months after its first stable release, or three months after the first + stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means + that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if + 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated. + + Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this + year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to + continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until + Feb 2022. + + Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes + since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file. + + o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility): + - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC- + style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow + __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using + now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha. + - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix + on 0.4.0.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging): + - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection + logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. + - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was + invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion + addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix + on 0.4.3.1-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13 + Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes + several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS + defenses on bridges using pluggable transports. + + o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport): + - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges + with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not + given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to + find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug + 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha. + + o Minor feature (sendme, flow control): + - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already + sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do + so: this change only affects what clients would do if the + consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623. + + o Minor features (testing): + - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment + variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that + should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests + that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL + libraries. Part of ticket 33643. + + o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay): + - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay + module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668; + bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth): + - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs, + to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668. + Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (build system): + - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary. + Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646; + bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6): + - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections. + Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to + change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug + 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. + - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke + the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application + to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version, + but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default + so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6 + being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (key portability): + - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even + if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts + would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making + certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug + 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging): + - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported + by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are + recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6. + - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file + descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix + on 0.4.1.6. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3): + - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when + decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some + diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug + 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. + - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of + an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545; + bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks". + + o Code simplification and refactoring: + - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git + hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678. + + o Testing: + - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and + real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with + GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the + tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes + bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by + Putta Khunchalee. + + o Testing (CI): + - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app + directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe + and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not + required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future. + Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha. + - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is + failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix + for 33643. + + +Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18 + Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including + TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected + all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this + vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge + amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or + minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or + by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The + attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby + disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic + analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked + as CVE-2020-10592. + + We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being + exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade + as soon as packages are available. + + o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service): + - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to + consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by + directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden + services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to + introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a + high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on + 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue + as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592. + + o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak): + - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit + padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit. + Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls. + This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593. + + o Major bugfixes (directory authority): + - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth) + code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and + other authorities will always be answered regardless of the + bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. + + o Minor features (diagnostic): + - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to + track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA + code. Closes ticket 33290. + + o Minor features (directory authorities): + - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running + Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is + still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan. + + o Minor features (usability): + - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration + value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when + a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460. + + o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration): + - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay + operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their + relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix + on 0.1.1.10-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks): + - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using + Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha, + but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374; + bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration): + - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix + on 0.3.2.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client): + - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion + service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a + rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix + on 0.3.2.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3): + - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted + ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137; + bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked + as TROVE-2020-003. + + o Documentation (manpage): + - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor + manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of + the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of + Google Season of Docs. + - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify + its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971. + + o Testing (Travis CI): + - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194. + - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs + first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes + ticket 33194. + - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was + previously configured to fast_finish (which requires + allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195. + - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh" + tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792. + + +Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18 + This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports + numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020- + 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all + released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, + an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, + disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This + attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory + cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could + launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service + or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue + was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592. + + We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being + exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade + as soon as packages are available. + + o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): + - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to + consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by + directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden + services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to + introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a + high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on + 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue + as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592. + + o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): + - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit + padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit. + Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls. + This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593. + + o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): + - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth) + code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and + other authorities will always be answered regardless of the + bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. + + o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): + - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks + like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed. + Closes ticket 33075. + + o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): + - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding + it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): + - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection, + only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process. + Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause + us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix + on 0.3.2.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): + - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted + ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137; + bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked + as TROVE-2020-003. + + o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): + - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was + creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212; + bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): + - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194. + - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs + first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes + ticket 33194. + - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was + previously configured to fast_finish (which requires + allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195. + - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh" + tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792. + + +Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18 + Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases, + including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service + vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since + 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor + instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations + for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by + anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client + that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as + much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns + that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, + and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592. + + We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being + exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade + as soon as packages are available. + + o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): + - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to + consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by + directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden + services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to + introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a + high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on + 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue + as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592. + + o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): + - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit + padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit. + Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls. + This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593. + + o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): + - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding + it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): + - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection, + only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process. + Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause + us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix + on 0.3.2.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): + - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted + ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137; + bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked + as TROVE-2020-003. + + o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): + - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was + creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212; + bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): + - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194. + - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs + first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes + ticket 33194. + - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was + previously configured to fast_finish (which requires + allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195. + - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh" + tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792. + + +Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18 + Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a + fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that + affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this + vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge + amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or + minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or + by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The + attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby + disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic + analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked + as CVE-2020-10592. + + We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being + exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade + as soon as packages are available. + + o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): + - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to + consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by + directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden + services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to + introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a + high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on + 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue + as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592. + + o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): + - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that + rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are + processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In + libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect. + libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a + different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during + startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by + Peter Gerber. + + o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): + - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks + like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed. + Closes ticket 33075. + + o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): + - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding + it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc): + - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or + --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing + if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407; + bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): + - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection, + only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process. + Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause + us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix + on 0.3.2.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): + - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted + ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137; + bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked + as TROVE-2020-003. + + o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha): + - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was + creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212; + bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): + - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it + prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are + slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.) + Closes ticket 32629. + - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on + Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we + fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240. + + o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha): + - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242. + + o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha): + - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194. + - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs + first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes + ticket 33194. + - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was + previously configured to fast_finish (which requires + - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh" + tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792. + + Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody |