diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c8475746be..4051503b4d 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25 reported by "wood". - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed - dns_inits() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject + dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691. o Minor features: diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes index d37703dc2f..f8eebba62d 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes +++ b/ReleaseNotes @@ -3,6 +3,127 @@ This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file. +Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21 + Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less + useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client + that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap. + + This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by + Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details + about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.) + + o Security fixes: + - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on + some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel. + + o Major bugfixes: + - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or + "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay + would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If + the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never + closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha; + reported by "wood". + - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit + connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port + combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between + the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely + identify a connection. + - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching + descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume + after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge + descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would + get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to + 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete + already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. + - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document + to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially + sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on + 0.2.0.13-alpha. + - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old, + discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be + useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice + it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that + are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as + we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion + key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887. + + o Minor bugfixes: + - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug + could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix + on 0.2.0.10-alpha. + - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t. + - Compile without warnings on solaris. + - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection. + Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv. + - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key + certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. + Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. + - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status. + CID 349. + - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not + automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed + dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject + *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691. + - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with + the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse. + - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have + no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that + supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv. + - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested, + that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows. + Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv. + - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10 + seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the + configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian. + - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the + user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on + 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian. + - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to + the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID. + Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. + - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread + and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on + 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889. + - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a + nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug + 840. Patch from rovv. + - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to + prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from + intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch + from rovv. + - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere, + do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection. + Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv. + - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's + using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the + client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes + bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. + + o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): + - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on + 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874. + + o Minor features: + - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected + differently than the case where there is an error handling the + detached set. + - When we realize that another process has modified our cached + descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than + triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten. + - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the + case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do + not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the + ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3% + of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See + "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding" + for more info. + - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS + poisoning. + - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to + compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or + both. + + Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes