[or-cvs] [tor/release-0.2.2] 0.2.1.29 changelog and blurb

[arma at torproject.org]

commit 511049025350339629f270cde9495963e48d10d2
Author: Roger Dingledine <arma at torproject.org>
Date:   Sat Jan 15 19:56:10 2011 -0500

    0.2.1.29 changelog and blurb
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@@ -3,6 +3,72 @@ 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 0.2.1.29 - 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 0.2.1.28 - 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