commit a83650852d3cd00c9916cae74d755ae55a6b506d
parent 65f2eec694f18a64291cc85317b9f22dacc1d8e4
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:45:57 -0500
Add another NULL-pointer fix for protover.c.
This one can only be exploited if you can generate a correctly
signed consensus, so it's not as bad as 25074.
Fixes bug 25251; also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
Diffstat:
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/changes/trove-2018-004 b/changes/trove-2018-004
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+ o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
+ - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
+ contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
+ and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
+ issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
+ directory-authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
+ 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
+
diff --git a/src/or/protover.c b/src/or/protover.c
@@ -624,6 +624,11 @@ protover_all_supported(const char *s, char **missing_out)
}
smartlist_t *entries = parse_protocol_list(s);
+ if (BUG(entries == NULL)) {
+ log_warn(LD_NET, "Received an unparseable protocol list %s"
+ " from the consensus", escaped(s));
+ return 1;
+ }
missing = smartlist_new();