19 Jan 19:20
Tor 0.1.2.19 is released
Roger Dingledine <arma <at> mit.edu>
2008-01-19 18:20:58 GMT
2008-01-19 18:20:58 GMT
Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues. https://www.torproject.org/download.html Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17 o Security fixes: - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a relay's public (external) IP address too, unless ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based on network address. o Major bugfixes: - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544. - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry. - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero. - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir" requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are crashing or mis-answering these requests. - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole purpose. Fixes bug 539. o Minor bugfixes: - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to(Continue reading)
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