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@@ -1,3 +1,493 @@ +Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08 + Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when + they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This + release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from + relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about + clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority. + + o Major bugfixes: + - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever + we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock. + Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority + that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes + the rest of bug 1074. + - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6 + addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when + somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. + - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory + requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge + descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak. + Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. + - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate, + Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting, + potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on + 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470. + - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor + hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled + publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. + + o Major features: + - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their + state file (along with total usage, which was already saved) + so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on + restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their + estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting. + - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and + ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously, + if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not + treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability + calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the + change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035. + - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution + Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for + attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks. + + o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier): + - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured + with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on + 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei". + - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a + transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes + bug 2279. + - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378; + found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first + Tor release, in svn commit r110. + - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so + don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue + spotted by keb and G-Lo. + - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been + triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing + granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on + Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha. + - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve + as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but + continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental + partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is + going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should + really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366. + Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac. + - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your + bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last + hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead. + Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer". + - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't + correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504, + bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. + - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X). + Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by + "piebeer". + - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix + on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660. + - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time + when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime + or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give + incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing + bug 1035. + - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork + configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control + command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x): + - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node + selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit + bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights. + Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203. + - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an + error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on + Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha. + - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects + with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha. + Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer". + - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to + publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix + on 0.2.2.22-alpha. + + o Minor features: + - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve + some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004. + - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer + accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181. + - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private + IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with + a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always + ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually + in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent + proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting + "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc. + - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable + allocation error. + - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. + + o Minor features (log subsystem): + - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in + different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha, + but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes + bug 2215. + - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B". + Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say + "[~A,~B]". + - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log + messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way + to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot + of guessing. + + o Packaging changes: + - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents + in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at + git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git + + +Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25 + Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The + main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes + relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again. + We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it + will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution. + + o Major bugfixes: + - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to + remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. + Found by "piebeer". + - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa + via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly + initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes + bug 2433. Reported by bastik. + + o Minor features: + - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by + Apache's mod_ssl. + - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing + instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file. + Implements ticket 2432. + + o Minor bugfixes: + - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and + directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions. + Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss". + + +Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15 + Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which + continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves + a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code + execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert + and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely. + + o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29: + - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap + corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution + attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on + 0.1.2.10-rc. + - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any + zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly + high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss". + - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes + bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by + "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able + to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough + permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9. + + o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29: + - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers. + This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially + if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running + Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages. + Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190. + - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid + underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324. + - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a + cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into + memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix + on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss. + - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly + malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27. + Found by doorss. + + o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29: + - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup + requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a + bug reported by doorss. + - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library + has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't + be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. + - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual + addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix + on 0.1.2.1-alpha. + - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but + no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on + 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss. + - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual + address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. + + o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29: + - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. + - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions. + + o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29: + - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier; + added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with + Automake 1.7 or later. + - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c + because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that + release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular + among really fast exit relays on Linux. + + o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: + - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus + parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix + on 0.2.2.14-alpha. + + o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: + - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe + from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes + or worse when a consensus param has a weird value. + + o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: + - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't + used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier. + - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before + retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug + 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha. + - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later, + and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe + reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages + get through. + - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to + build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom. + - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5. + Resolves bug 2314. + + o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: + - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather + than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix + on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss. + - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to + base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned + comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor, + but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss. + - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent + versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns + implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*() + functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug + 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger". + + o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: + - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for + tor-resolve. + + +Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15 + Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main + fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote + code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs, + most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely. + + o Major bugfixes (security): + - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap + corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution + attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on + 0.1.2.10-rc. + - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any + zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly + high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss". + - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes + bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by + "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able + to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough + permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9. + + o Major bugfixes (crashes): + - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers. + This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially + if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running + Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages. + Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190. + - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid + underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324. + - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a + cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into + memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix + on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss. + - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly + malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27. + Found by doorss. + + o Minor bugfixes (other): + - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup + requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a + bug reported by doorss. + - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library + has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't + be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. + - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual + addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix + on 0.1.2.1-alpha. + - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but + no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on + 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss. + - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual + address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. + - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c + because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that + release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular + among really fast exit relays on Linux. + + o Minor features: + - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. + - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions. + + o Build changes: + - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier; + added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with + Automake 1.7 or later. + + +Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17 + Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely + exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs, + change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update + the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network. + + o Major bugfixes: + - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances + of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution + hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should + upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later. + - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large + time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals. + Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper. + - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that + would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits + to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch + from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; + fix by boboper. + - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given + circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or + destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was + introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152. + + o Directory authority changes: + - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority). + + o Minor bugfixes: + - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235. + Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper. + - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command + argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since + the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by + boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. + - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its + extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on + Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha. + + o Minor features: + - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. + - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of + Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have + known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous + circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081. + - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor + older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches + current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156. + - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to + exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements + task 2196. + + +Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17 + Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely + exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address + for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database + we ship. + + o Major bugfixes: + - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances + of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution + hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should + upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later. + + o Directory authority changes: + - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority). + + o Minor features: + - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. + + +Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23 + Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor: + Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We + also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new + directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database. + + o Major bugfixes: + - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b: + No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects; + but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting + it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204; + bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. + - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer + freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection + try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals + of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125; + fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. + - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if + we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, + where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to + be useful. Fixes bug 2050. + - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on + router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously + we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk + anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer. + - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your + bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks + connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an + hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on + 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981. + + o Major features: + - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather + than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that + count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll + have more accurate data, especially for many African countries. + + o New directory authorities: + - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory + authority. + + o Minor bugfixes: + - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or + bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing + network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on + 0.2.0.8-alpha. + - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on + 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer. + - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod + seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after + IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they + were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san + for analysis help. + - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable + warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings + pass on OpenBSD 4.8. + + o Minor features: + - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code, + and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new + stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE. + Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize + it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793. + - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8. + Patch from mingw-san. + + o Removed files: + - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution. + The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL + https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git + - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We + changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in + 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway. + + Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor: Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. |