commit 5a8cdec3f8617920f19e3ab7707233ad3f02424f
parent f2daf82794c59c37756abeaf3e41e5ebe1e7fcde
Author: Isis Lovecruft <isis@torproject.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 19:19:40 +0000
changes: Add changes file for #24031.
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+ o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
+ - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-efficient
+ voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus avoiding a
+ potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially crafted protocol
+ strings would expand to several potential megabytes in memory. In the
+ process, several portions of code were revised to be methods on new,
+ custom types, rather than functions taking interchangeable types, thus
+ increasing type safety of the module. Custom error types and handling
+ were added as well, in order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling
+ in outside crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to
+ C over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
+ differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
+ remedied. Fixes 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
