[tor-talk] New alpha release: 0.4.3.3-alpha (with security fix)

[Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!

There's a new alpha release available for download. If you build Tor
from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.3.3-alpha from
the download page on the website. Packages should be available over
the coming days, including  a new alpha Tor Browser release.

Remember, this is an alpha release: you should only run this if you'd
like to find and report more bugs than usual.

(There are also three stable releases coming out today: 0.3.5.10,
0.4.1.9, and 0.4.2.7. Stable releases get announced on the
tor-announce@ mailing list.)

These releases fix a couple of denial-of-service vulnerabilities.
Everybody running an older version should upgrade as packages become
available.

Below is the full changelog for 0.4.3.3-alpha.

Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
  Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
  TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
  all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
  vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
  amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
  minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
  by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
  attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
  disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
  analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
  as CVE-2020-10592.

  We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
  exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
  as soon as packages are available.

  o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
    - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
      consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
      directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
      services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
      introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
      high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
      0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
      as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.

  o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
    - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
      padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
      Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
      This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.

  o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
    - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
      code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
      other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
      bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.

  o Minor features (diagnostic):
    - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
      track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
      code. Closes ticket 33290.

  o Minor features (directory authorities):
    - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
      Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
      still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.

  o Minor features (usability):
    - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
      value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
      a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.

  o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
    - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
      operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
      relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
      on 0.1.1.10-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
    - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
      Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
      but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
      bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
    - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
      on 0.3.2.2-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
    - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
      service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
      rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
      on 0.3.2.1-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
    - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
      ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
      bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
      as TROVE-2020-003.

  o Documentation (manpage):
    - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
      manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
      the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
      Google Season of Docs.
    - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
      its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.

  o Testing (Travis CI):
    - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
    - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
      first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
      ticket 33194.
    - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
      previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
      allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
    - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
      tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
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