[tor-commits] [tor/release-0.4.5] Copy ChangeLog into ReleaseNotes.

[nickm at torproject.org]

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Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org>
Date:   Mon Jun 14 10:51:06 2021 -0400

    Copy ChangeLog into ReleaseNotes.
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@@ -2,6 +2,69 @@ 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 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
+  Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
+  denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
+  denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
+  one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
+
+  o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
+    - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
+      half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
+      hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
+      a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
+      bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
+      003 and CVE-2021-34548.
+
+  o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
+    - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
+      Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
+      implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
+      Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
+      when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
+      40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
+      TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
+
+  o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
+    - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
+      relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
+      up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
+      to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
+      collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
+      SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
+      0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
+      CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
+    - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
+      parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
+      service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
+      it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
+      tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
+      Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
+
+  o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
+    - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
+      used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
+      compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
+      ticket 40399.
+
+  o Minor features (geoip data):
+    - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
+      retrieved on 2021/06/10.
+
+  o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
+    - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
+      sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
+      simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
+      number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
+      sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
+      Daniel Pinto.
+
+  o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
+    - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
+      MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
+      on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
+
+
 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
   Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
   from the 0.4.6.x series.