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[or-cvs] [tor/release-0.2.1] make the description of tolen_asserts more dire
commit 50b06a2b76190170e9f80739f022696755b54b99
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Jan 15 10:54:58 2011 -0500
make the description of tolen_asserts more dire
We have a CVE # for this bug.
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changes/tolen_asserts | 7 +++----
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/changes/tolen_asserts b/changes/tolen_asserts
index 90cdb2d..a9834ab 100644
--- a/changes/tolen_asserts
+++ b/changes/tolen_asserts
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
o Major bugfixes (security)
- Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
- corruption. Since the contents of the corruption would need to be
- the output of an RSA decryption, we do not think this is easy to
- turn in to a remote code execution attack, but everybody should
- upgrade anyway. Found by debuger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.10-rc.
+ corruption. This bug potentially allows remote code execution
+ attacks. Found by debuger. Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
+ 0.1.2.10-rc.
o Defensive programming
- Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.