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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: contact.ng0@cryptolab.net
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tor: update to 0.2.9.9
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:07:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170124190726.GB6110@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170124111934.16080-1-contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>

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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:19:33AM +0000, contact.ng0@cryptolab.net wrote:
> Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
>   o Major bugfixes (security):
>     - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
>       --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
>       like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
>       it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
>       into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
>       bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.

I'm not familiar with Tor's build system.

Should we build Tor with "--enable-expensive-hardening"?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-24 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-24 11:19 tor: update to 0.2.9.9 contact.ng0
2017-01-24 11:19 ` [PATCH] gnu: tor: Update " contact.ng0
2017-01-24 19:06   ` Leo Famulari
2017-01-24 19:07 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-01-24 20:56   ` Hardening (was: Re: tor: update to 0.2.9.9) ng0
2017-01-24 21:02     ` Leo Famulari
2017-01-24 21:09       ` ng0
2017-01-24 21:18         ` ng0
2017-01-24 21:32           ` Leo Famulari
2017-01-24 21:56             ` ng0
2017-01-24 22:14               ` ng0
2017-01-25 13:04               ` Hardening Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-30 12:05                 ` Hardening ng0
2017-01-30 12:16                   ` Hardening ng0
2017-01-25  9:09       ` Hardening (was: Re: tor: update to 0.2.9.9) Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-25 11:51         ` Hardening ng0

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