[tor-project] cve's monthly status report

[Clara Engler <cve@xxxxxx>]

Hello,
the following contains my status report for November '24:

* Wrote a tiny tool to block Tor with simple firewall rules to simulate a loss of connectivity.[^1]
    * Discovered a bug in arti while doing this.[^2]
* Improved the recognition of being bootstrapped.[^3]
* Researched upon loss of connectivity.[^4]
* Upgraded various outdated crates in onionmasq by merging overdue MR's from Renovate-Bot
* Upgraded `thiserror` to version 2 in arti and onionmasq, fixing a breaking change.[^5]
* Allowing packets to be received when the source address is the loopback one.[^6]
    * This was a particularly difficult issue to tackle that is crucial for testing.
* Fixed a general lack of IPv6 connectivity in onionmasq.[^7]
* Implemented an HTTP integration test.[^8]
* Fixed `wait_for_bootstrap` issue in chutney.[^9]
* Fixed a bug in onionmasq for routing UDP datagrams to a loopback address.[^10]
* Made the integration test suite ready for UDP.[^11]
* Implemented a UDP integration test, thereby greatly bumping the overall coverage.[^11]
* Improved documentation of the integration test suite.[^11]
* Various reviews of merge requests in arti and onionmasq.
* Various feature suggestions in onionmasq through the use of issues.
* Legal and bureaucratic matters.

[^1]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/cve/torblock
[^2]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/1731
[^3]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/onionmasq/-/merge_requests/312
[^4]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/onionmasq/-/issues/110
[^5]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/merge_requests/2626
[^6]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/onionmasq/-/issues/120
[^7]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/onionmasq/-/issues/122
[^8]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/onionmasq/-/merge_requests/322
[^9]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/chutney/-/merge_requests/39
[^10]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/onionmasq/-/issues/128
[^11]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/onionmasq/-/merge_requests/332
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