Rename --enable-expensive-hardening configure option

It is renamed to --enable-fragile-hardening.

TROVE-2017-001 was triggerable only through the expensive hardening which is
making the tor daemon abort when the issue is detected. Thus, it makes tor
more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or heartbleed bug
category.

Fixes #21290.

Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
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David Goulet 2017-02-01 10:08:40 -05:00
parent f1530d0e5a
commit 5335a8e6f8
2 changed files with 32 additions and 4 deletions

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o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
- Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
--enable-fragile-hardening. TROVE-2017-001 was triggerable only through
the expensive hardening which is making the tor daemon abort when the
issue is detected. Thus, it makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but
safer against RCE or heartbleed bug category. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix on
tor-0.2.5.4-alpha.

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@ -145,8 +145,14 @@ dnl Others suggest '/gs /safeseh /nxcompat /dynamicbase' for non-gcc on Windows
AC_ARG_ENABLE(gcc-hardening,
AS_HELP_STRING(--disable-gcc-hardening, [disable compiler security checks]))
dnl Deprecated --enable-expensive-hardening but keep it for now for backward compat.
AC_ARG_ENABLE(expensive-hardening,
AS_HELP_STRING(--enable-expensive-hardening, [enable more expensive compiler hardening; makes Tor slower]))
AS_HELP_STRING(--enable-expensive-hardening, [enable more fragile and expensive compiler hardening; makes Tor slower]))
AC_ARG_ENABLE(fragile-hardening,
AS_HELP_STRING(--enable-fragile-hardening, [enable more fragile and expensive compiler hardening; makes Tor slower]))
if test "x$enable_expensive_hardening" = "xyes" || test "x$enable_fragile_hardening" = "xyes"; then
fragile_hardening="yes"
fi
dnl Linker hardening options
dnl Currently these options are ELF specific - you can't use this with MacOSX
@ -772,14 +778,14 @@ m4_ifdef([AS_VAR_IF],[
TOR_TRY_COMPILE_WITH_CFLAGS(-fwrapv, also_link, CFLAGS_FWRAPV="-fwrapv", true)
fi
if test "x$enable_expensive_hardening" = "xyes"; then
if test "$fragile_hardening" = "yes"; then
TOR_TRY_COMPILE_WITH_CFLAGS(-ftrapv, also_link, CFLAGS_FTRAPV="-ftrapv", true)
if test "$tor_cv_cflags__ftrapv" = "yes" && test "$tor_can_link__ftrapv" != "yes"; then
AC_MSG_WARN([The compiler supports -ftrapv, but for some reason I was not able to link with -ftrapv. Are you missing run-time support? Run-time hardening will not work as well as it should.])
fi
if test "$tor_cv_cflags__ftrapv" != "yes"; then
AC_MSG_ERROR([You requested expensive hardening, but the compiler does not seem to support -ftrapv.])
AC_MSG_ERROR([You requested fragile hardening, but the compiler does not seem to support -ftrapv.])
fi
TOR_TRY_COMPILE_WITH_CFLAGS([-fsanitize=address], also_link, CFLAGS_ASAN="-fsanitize=address", true)
@ -861,7 +867,7 @@ saved_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
TOR_CHECK_CFLAGS(-fomit-frame-pointer)
F_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER=''
if test "$saved_CFLAGS" != "$CFLAGS"; then
if test "x$enable_expensive_hardening" != "xyes"; then
if test "$fragile_hardening" = "yes"; then
F_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER='-fomit-frame-pointer'
fi
fi
@ -1960,4 +1966,19 @@ if test "x$asciidoc" = "xtrue" && test "$ASCIIDOC" = "none"; then
done
fi
if test "$fragile_hardening" = "yes"; then
AC_MSG_WARN([
============
Warning! Building Tor with --enable-fragile-hardening (also known as
--enable-expensive-hardening) makes some kinds of attacks harder, but makes
other kinds of attacks easier. A Tor instance build with this option will be
somewhat less vulnerable to remote code execution, arithmetic overflow, or
out-of-bounds read/writes... but at the cost of becoming more vulnerable to
denial of service attacks. For more information, see
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorFragileHardening
============
])
fi
AC_OUTPUT