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- <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="WHATSNEW" id="WHATSNEW">3. What's New in this
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-
- <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.24</span> stable contains a
- couple of new features but is mainly a bug-fix release. Two of the fixed
- bugs are security issues and may be used to remotely trigger crashes on
- platforms that carefully check memory accesses (most don't).</p>
-
+ <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="WHATSNEW" id="WHATSNEW">3. What's New in this Release</a></h1>
+ <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.32</span> fixes multiple DoS issues and a couple of other bugs. The issues
+ also affect earlier Privoxy releases.</p>
+ <p>Changes in <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy 3.0.32</span> stable:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Security fixes (denial of service):</p>
-
+ <p>Security/Reliability:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Prevent invalid reads in case of corrupt chunk-encoded
- content. CVE-2016-1982. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and
- AddressSanitizer.</p>
+ <p>ssplit(): Remove an assertion that could be triggered with a crafted CGI request. Commit 2256d7b4d67.
+ OVE-20210203-0001. Reported by: Joshua Rogers (Opera)</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Remove empty Host headers in client requests. Previously they
- would result in invalid reads. CVE-2016-1983. Bug discovered with
- afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.</p>
+ <p>cgi_send_banner(): Overrule invalid image types. Prevents a crash with a crafted CGI request if Privoxy
+ is toggled off. Commit e711c505c48. OVE-20210206-0001. Reported by: Joshua Rogers (Opera)</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>socks5_connect(): Don't try to send credentials when none are configured. Fixes a crash due to a
+ NULL-pointer dereference when the socks server misbehaves. Commit 85817cc55b9. OVE-20210207-0001. Reported
+ by: Joshua Rogers (Opera)</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>chunked_body_is_complete(): Prevent an invalid read of size two. Commit a912ba7bc9c. OVE-20210205-0001.
+ Reported by: Joshua Rogers (Opera)</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Obsolete pcre: Prevent invalid memory accesses with an invalid pattern passed to pcre_compile(). Note
+ that the obsolete pcre code is scheduled to be removed before the 3.0.33 release. There has been a warning
+ since 2008 already. Commit 28512e5b624. OVE-20210222-0001. Reported by: Joshua Rogers (Opera)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
- <p>When using socks5t, send the request body optimistically as
- well. Previously the request body wasn't guaranteed to be sent at
- all and the error message incorrectly blamed the server. Fixes
- #1686 reported by Peter Müller and G4JC.</p>
+ <p>Properly parse the client-tag-lifetime directive. Previously it was not accepted as an obsolete hash
+ value was being used. Reported by: Joshua Rogers (Opera)</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Fixed buffer scaling in execute_external_filter() that could
- lead to crashes. Submitted by Yang Xia in #892.</p>
+ <p>decompress_iob(): Prevent reading of uninitialized data. Reported by: Joshua Rogers (Opera).</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Fixed crashes when executing external filters on platforms
- like Mac OS X. Reported by Jonathan McKenzie on
- ijbswa-users@.</p>
+ <p>decompress_iob(): Don't advance cur past eod when looking for the end of the file name and comment.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Properly parse ACL directives with ports when compiled with
- HAVE_RFC2553. Previously the port wasn't removed from the host
- and in case of 'permit-access 127.0.0.1 example.org:80' Privoxy
- would try (and fail) to resolve "example.org:80" instead of
- example.org. Reported by Pak Chan on ijbswa-users@.</p>
+ <p>decompress_iob(): Cast value to unsigned char before shifting. Prevents a left-shift of a negative value
+ which is undefined behaviour. Reported by: Joshua Rogers (Opera)</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Check requests more carefully before serving them forcefully
- when blocks aren't enforced. Privoxy always adds the force token
- at the beginning of the path, but would previously accept it
- anywhere in the request line. This could result in requests being
- served that should be blocked. For example in case of pages that
- were loaded with force and contained JavaScript to create
- additionally requests that embed the origin URL (thus inheriting
- the force prefix). The bug is not considered a security issue and
- the fix does not make it harder for remote sites to intentionally
- circumvent blocks if Privoxy isn't configured to enforce them.
- Fixes #1695 reported by Korda.</p>
+ <p>gif_deanimate(): Confirm that that we have enough data before doing any work. Fixes a crash when fuzzing
+ with an empty document. Reported by: Joshua Rogers (Opera).</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Normalize the request line in intercepted requests to make
- rewriting the destination more convenient. Previously rewrites
- for intercepted requests were expected to fail unless $hostport
- was being used, but they failed "the wrong way" and would result
- in an out-of-memory message (vanilla host patterns) or a crash
- (extended host patterns). Reported by "Guybrush Threepwood" in
- #1694.</p>
+ <p>buf_copy(): Fail if there's no data to write or nothing to do. Prevents undefined behaviour "applying
+ zero offset to null pointer". Reported by: Joshua Rogers (Opera)</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Enable socket lingering for the correct socket. Previously it
- was repeatedly enabled for the listen socket instead of for the
- accepted socket. The bug was found by code inspection and did not
- cause any (reported) issues.</p>
+ <p>log_error(): Treat LOG_LEVEL_FATAL as fatal even when --stfu is being used while fuzzing. Reported by:
+ Joshua Rogers (Opera).</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Detect and reject parameters for parameter-less actions.
- Previously they were silently ignored.</p>
+ <p>Respect DESTDIR when considering whether or not to install config files with ".new" extension.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Fixed invalid reads in internal and outdated pcre code. Found
- with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.</p>
+ <p>OpenSSL ssl_store_cert(): Fix two error messages.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Prevent invalid read when loading invalid action files. Found
- with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer.</p>
+ <p>Fix a couple of format specifiers.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Windows build: Use the correct function to close the event
- handle. It's unclear if this bug had a negative impact on
- Privoxy's behaviour. Reported by Jarry Xu in #891.</p>
+ <p>Silence compiler warnings when compiling with NDEBUG.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>In case of invalid forward-socks5(t) directives, use the
- correct directive name in the error messages. Previously they
- referred to forward-socks4t failures. Reported by Joel Verhagen
- in #889.</p>
+ <p>fuzz_server_header(): Fix compiler warning.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>fuzz_client_header(): Fix compiler warning.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>cgi_send_user_manual(): Also reject requests if the user-manual directive specifies a https:// URL.
+ Previously Privoxy would try and fail to open a local file.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>General improvements:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Set NO_DELAY flag for the accepting socket. This significantly
- reduces the latency if the operating system is not configured to
- set the flag by default. Reported by Johan Sintorn in #894.</p>
+ <p>Log the TLS version and the the cipher when debug 2 is enabled.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Allow to build with mingw x86_64. Submitted by Rustam
- Abdullaev in #135.</p>
+ <p>ssl_send_certificate_error(): Respect HEAD requests by not sending a body.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Introduce the new forwarding type 'forward-webserver'.
- Currently it is only supported by the forward-override{} action
- and there's no config directive with the same name. The
- forwarding type is similar to 'forward', but the request line
- only contains the path instead of the complete URL.</p>
+ <p>ssl_send_certificate_error(): End the body with a single new line.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>The CGI editor no longer treats 'standard.action' special.
- Nowadays the official "standards" are part of default.action and
- there's no obvious reason to disallow editing them through the
- cgi editor anyway (if the user decided that the lack of
- authentication isn't an issue in her environment).</p>
+ <p>serve(): Increase the chances that the host is logged when closing a server socket.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Improved error messages when rejecting intercepted requests
- with unknown destination.</p>
+ <p>handle_established_connection(): Add parentheses to clarify an expression Suggested by: David
+ Binderman</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>A couple of log messages now include the number of active
- threads.</p>
+ <p>continue_https_chat(): Explicitly unset CSP_FLAG_CLIENT_CONNECTION_KEEP_ALIVE if
+ process_encrypted_request() fails. This makes it more obvious that the connection will not be reused.
+ Previously serve() relied on CSP_FLAG_SERVER_CONTENT_LENGTH_SET and CSP_FLAG_CHUNKED being unset. Inspired
+ by a patch from Joshua Rogers (Opera).</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Removed non-standard Proxy-Agent headers in HTTP snipplets to
- make testing more convenient.</p>
+ <p>decompress_iob(): Add periods to a couple of log messages</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Include the error code for pcre errors Privoxy does not
- recognize.</p>
+ <p>Terminate the body of the HTTP snipplets with a single new line instead of "\r\n".</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Config directives with numerical arguments are checked more
- carefully.</p>
+ <p>configure: Add --with-assertions option and only enable assertions when it is used</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Privoxy's malloc() wrapper has been changed to prevent
- zero-size allocations which should only occur as the result of
- bugs.</p>
+ <p>windows build: Use --with-brotli and --with-mbedtls by default and enable dynamic error checking.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Various cosmetic changes.</p>
+ <p>gif_deanimate(): Confirm we've got an image before trying to write it Saves a pointless buf_copy()
+ call.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>OpenSSL ssl_store_cert(): Remove a superfluous space before the serial number.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
<p>Action file improvements:</p>
-
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Unblock ".deutschlandradiokultur.de/". Reported by u302320 in
- #924.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Add two fast-redirect exceptions for "yandex.ru".</p>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for .golem.de/</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Disable filter{banners-by-size} for ".plasmaservice.de/".</p>
+ <p>Unblock requests to adri*.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Unblock "klikki.fi/adv/".</p>
+ <p>Block requests for trc*.taboola.com/</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Block requests for "resources.infolinks.com/". Reported by
- "Black Rider" on ijbswa-users@.</p>
+ <p>Disable fast-redirects for .linkedin.com/</p>
</li>
-
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Filter file improvements:</p>
+ <ul>
<li>
- <p>Block a bunch of criteo domains. Reported by Black Rider.</p>
+ <p>Make the second pcrs job of the img-reorder filter greedy again. The ungreedy version broke the img tags
+ on: https://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/.</p>
</li>
-
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Privoxy-Log-Parser:</p>
+ <ul>
<li>
- <p>Block "abs.proxistore.com/abe/". Reported by Black Rider.</p>
+ <p>Highlight a few more messages.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Disable filter{banners-by-size} for
- ".black-mosquito.org/".</p>
+ <p>Clarify the --statistics output. The shown "Reused connections" are server connections so name them
+ appropriately.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Disable fast-redirects for "disqus.com/".</p>
+ <p>Bump version to 0.9.3.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Documentation improvements:</p>
-
+ <p>Privoxy-Regression-Test:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>FAQ: Explicitly point fingers at ASUS as an example of a
- company that has been reported to force malware based on Privoxy
- upon its customers.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <p>Correctly document the action type for a bunch of
- "multi-value" actions that were incorrectly documented to be
- "parameterized". Reported by Gregory Seidman on
- ijbswa-users@.</p>
+ <p>Add the --check-bad-ssl option to the --help output.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Fixed the documented type of the forward-override{} action
- which is obviously 'parameterized'.</p>
+ <p>Bump version to 0.7.3.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Website improvements:</p>
-
+ <p>Documentation:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>Users who don't trust binaries served by SourceForge can get
- them from a mirror. Migrating away from SourceForge is planned
- for 2016 (TODO list item #53).</p>
+ <p>Add pushing the created tag to the release steps in the developer manual.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>Clarify that 'debug 32768' should be used in addition to the other debug directives when reporting
+ problems.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>The website is now available as onion service
- (http://jvauzb4sb3bwlsnc.onion/).</p>
+ <p>Add a 'Third-party licenses and copyrights' section to the user manual.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="UPGRADERSNOTE" id="UPGRADERSNOTE">3.1. Note
- to Upgraders</a></h2>
-
- <p>A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier
- versions of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>:</p>
-
+ <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="UPGRADERSNOTE" id="UPGRADERSNOTE">3.1. Note to Upgraders</a></h2>
+ <p>A quick list of things to be aware of before upgrading from earlier versions of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>:</p>
<ul>
<li>
- <p>The recommended way to upgrade <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is to backup your old configuration
- files, install the new ones, verify that <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is working correctly and finally merge
- back your changes using <span class="APPLICATION">diff</span> and
- maybe <span class="APPLICATION">patch</span>.</p>
-
- <p>There are a number of new features in each <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> release and most of them have to be
- explicitly enabled in the configuration files. Old configuration
- files obviously don't do that and due to syntax changes using old
- configuration files with a new <span class=
+ <p>The recommended way to upgrade <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is to backup your old
+ configuration files, install the new ones, verify that <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is working
+ correctly and finally merge back your changes using <span class="APPLICATION">diff</span> and maybe
+ <span class="APPLICATION">patch</span>.</p>
+ <p>There are a number of new features in each <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> release and most of
+ them have to be explicitly enabled in the configuration files. Old configuration files obviously don't do
+ that and due to syntax changes using old configuration files with a new <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> isn't always possible anyway.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely,
- including configuration files, therefore you should really save any
- important configuration files!</p>
+ <p>Note that some installers remove earlier versions completely, including configuration files, therefore you
+ should really save any important configuration files!</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing
- configuration files, thinking you will want to do that
- yourself.</p>
+ <p>On the other hand, other installers don't overwrite existing configuration files, thinking you will want
+ to do that yourself.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now.
- You can change that in the <a href="config.html#DEBUG">debug
- section</a> of the configuration file. You may also want to enable
- more verbose logging until you verified that the new <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version is working as expected.</p>
+ <p>In the default configuration only fatal errors are logged now. You can change that in the <a href=
+ "config.html#DEBUG">debug section</a> of the configuration file. You may also want to enable more verbose
+ logging until you verified that the new <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> version is working as
+ expected.</p>
</li>
-
<li>
- <p>Three other config file settings are now off by default:
- <a href="config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a>,
- <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">enable-remote-http-toggle</a>,
- and <a href=
- "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a>. If you
- use or want these, you will need to explicitly enable them, and be
- aware of the security issues involved.</p>
+ <p>Three other config file settings are now off by default: <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-TOGGLE">enable-remote-toggle</a>, <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-REMOTE-HTTP-TOGGLE">enable-remote-http-toggle</a>, and <a href=
+ "config.html#ENABLE-EDIT-ACTIONS">enable-edit-actions</a>. If you use or want these, you will need to
+ explicitly enable them, and be aware of the security issues involved.</p>
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