From b503df2775d22cff0b74740357121ba5195e4a12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Isis Lovecruft Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 19:19:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] changes: Add changes file for #24031. (cherry picked from commit 5a8cdec3f8617920f19e3ab7707233ad3f02424f) --- changes/bug24031 | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 changes/bug24031 diff --git a/changes/bug24031 b/changes/bug24031 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..adffa46d8a --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/bug24031 @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ + o Major bugfixes (protover, voting): + - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-efficient + voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus avoiding a + potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially crafted protocol + strings would expand to several potential megabytes in memory. In the + process, several portions of code were revised to be methods on new, + custom types, rather than functions taking interchangeable types, thus + increasing type safety of the module. Custom error types and handling + were added as well, in order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling + in outside crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to + C over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous + differences between the C and Rust implementations have been + remedied. Fixes 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.