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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2021-08-16 11:17:23 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2021-08-16 11:19:11 -0400
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Clarify behavior on bad address length in NETINFO
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@@ -887,7 +887,8 @@ see tor-design.pdf.
[06] IPv6.
ALEN MUST be 4 when ATYPE is 0x04 (IPv4) and 16 when ATYPE is 0x06
- (IPv6).
+ (IPv6). If the ALEN value is wrong for the given ATYPE value, then
+ the provided address should be ignored.
The timestamp is a big-endian unsigned integer number of seconds
since the Unix epoch. Implementations MUST ignore unexpected bytes