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ChangeLog for Privoxy
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+*** Version 3.0.34 stable ***
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Improve the handling of chunk-encoded responses by buffering the data
+ even if filters are disabled and properly keeping track of where the
+ various chunks are supposed to start and end. Previously Privoxy would
+ merely check the last bytes received to see if they looked like the
+ last-chunk. This failed to work if the last-chunk wasn't received in one
+ read and could also result in actual data being misdetected
+ as last-chunk.
+ Should fix: SF support request #1739.
+ Reported by: withoutname.
+ - remove_chunked_transfer_coding(): Refuse to de-chunk invalid data
+ Previously the data could get corrupted even further.
+ Now we simply pass the unmodified data to the client.
+ - gif_deanimate(): Tolerate multiple image extensions in a row.
+ This allows to deanimate all the gifs on:
+ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Animated_smilies
+ Fixes SF bug #795 reported by Celejar.
+ - OpenSSL generate_host_certificate(): Use X509_get_subject_name()
+ instead of X509_get_issuer_name() to get the issuer for generated
+ website certificates so there are no warnings in the browser when using
+ an intermediate CA certificate instead of a self-signed root certificate.
+ Problem reported and patch submitted by Chakib Benziane.
+ - can_filter_request_body(): Fix a log message that contained a spurious u.
+ - handle_established_connection(): Check for pending TLS data from the client
+ before checking if data is available on the connection.
+ The TLS library may have already consumed all the data from the client
+ response in which case poll() and select() will not detect that data is
+ available to be read.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme.
+ - ssl_send_certificate_error(): Don't crash if there's no certificate
+ information available. This is only relevant when Privoxy is built with
+ wolfSSL 5.0.0 or later (code not yet published). Earlier wolfSSL versions
+ or the other TLS backends don't seem to trigger the crash.
+ - socks5_connect(): Add support for target hosts specified as IPv4 address
+ Previously the IP address was sent as domain.
+
+- General improvements:
+ - Add a client-body-tagger action which creates tags based on
+ the content of the request body.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme.
+ - When client-body filters are enabled, buffer the whole request
+ before opening a connection to the server.
+ Makes it less likely that the server connection times out
+ and we don't open a connection if the buffering fails anyway.
+ Sponsored by: Robert Klemme.
+ - Add periods to a couple of log messages.
+ - accept_connection(): Add missing space to a log message.
+ - Initialize ca-related defaults with strdup_or_die() so errors
+ aren't silently ignored.
+ - make_path: Use malloc_or_die() in cases where allocation errors
+ were already fatal anyway.
+ - handle_established_connection(): Improve an error message slightly.
+ - receive_client_request(): Reject https URLs without CONNECT request.
+ - Include all requests in the statistics if mutexes are available.
+ Previously in case of reused connections only the last request got
+ counted. The statistics still aren't perfect but it's an improvement.
+ - Add read_socks_reply() and start using it in socks5_connect()
+ to apply the socket timeout more consistently.
+ - socks5_connect(): Deal with domain names in the socks reply
+ - Add a filter for bundeswehr.de that hides the cookie and
+ privacy info banner.
+
+- Action file improvements:
+ - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for .freiheitsfoo.de/.
+ - Disable filter{banners-by-size} for freebsdfoundation.org/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for consent.youtube.com/.
+ - Block requests to ups.xplosion.de/.
+ - Block requests for elsa.memoinsights.com/t.
+ - Fix a typo in a test.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for launchpad.net/.
+ - Unblock .eff.org/.
+ - Stop unblocking .org/.*(image|banner) which appears to be too generous
+ It let requests like:
+ https://stats.noblogs.org/piwik.php?action_name=anti%20gentrifizierungs%20fest&idsite=10175&rec=1&r=220192&h=17&m=7&s=44&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmuellemcalling.noblogs.org%2F&urlref=https%3A%2F%2Fmuellemcalling.noblogs.org%2Finfostande%2F&_id=&_idn=1&_refts=0&send_image=0&cookie=1&res=1366x768&pv_id=eqr7jX&pf_net=7&pf_srv=3&pf_tfr=2281&pf_dm1=156
+ pass.
+ The example URL http://www.gnu.org/graphics/gnu-head-banner.png is
+ already unblocked due to .gnu.org being unblocked.
+ - Unblock adfd.org/.
+ - Disable filter{banners-by-link} for .eff.org/.
+ - Block requests to odb.outbrain.com/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for .gandi.net/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects{} for .onion/.*/status/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects{} for twitter.com/.*/status/.
+ - Unblock pinkstinks.de/.
+ - Disable fast-redirects for .hagalil.com/.
+
+- Privoxy-Log-Parser:
+ - Bump version to 0.9.5.
+ - Highlight more log messages.
+ - Highlight the Crunch reason only once. Previously the "crunch reason"
+ could also be highlighted when the URL contained a matching string.
+ The real crunch reason only occurs once per line, so there's no need
+ to continue looking for it after it has been found once.
+ While at it, add a comment with an example log line.
+
+- uagen:
+ - Bump version to 1.2.4.
+ - Update BROWSER_VERSION and BROWSER_REVISION to 102.0
+ to match the User-Agent of the current Firefox ESR.
+ - Explicitly document that changing the 'Gecko token' is suspicious.
+ - Consistently use a lower-case 'c' as copyright symbol.
+ - Bump copyright.
+ - Add 'aarch64' as Linux architecture.
+ - Add OpenBSD architecture 'arm64'.
+ - Stop using sparc64 as FreeBSD architecture.
+ It hasn't been supported for a while now.
+
+- Build system:
+ - Makefile: Add a 'dok' target that depends on the 'error' target
+ to show the "You are not using GNU make or did nor run configure"
+ message.
+ - configure: Fix --with-msan option.
+ Also (probably) reported by Andrew Savchenko.
+
+- macOS build system:
+ - Enable HTTPS inspection when building the macOS binary
+ (using OpenSSL as TLS library).
+
+- Documentation:
+ - Add OpenSSL to the list of libraries that may be licensed under the
+ Apache 2.0 license in which case the linked Privoxy binary has to be
+ distributed under the GPLv3 or later.
+ - config: Fix the documented ca-directory default value.
+ Reported by avoidr.
+ - Rebuild developer-manual and tidy with 'HTML Tidy for FreeBSD version 5.8.0'.
+ - Update developer manual with new macOS packaging instructions.
+ - Note that the FreeBSD installation instructions work for
+ ElectroBSD as well.
+ - Note that FreeBSD/ElectroBSD users can try to install Privoxy
+ as binary package using 'pkg'.
+
*** Version 3.0.33 stable ***
+- Security/Reliability:
+ - cgi_error_no_template(): Encode the template name to prevent
+ XSS (cross-site scripting) when Privoxy is configured to servce
+ the user-manual itself.
+ Commit 0e668e9409c. OVE-20211102-0001. CVE-2021-44543.
+ Reported by: Artem Ivanov
+ - get_url_spec_param(): Free memory of compiled pattern spec
+ before bailing.
+ Reported by Joshua Rogers (Opera) who also provided the fix.
+ Commit 652b4b7cb0. OVE-20211201-0003. CVE-2021-44540.
+ - process_encrypted_request_headers(): Free header memory when
+ failing to get the request destination.
+ Reported by Joshua Rogers (Opera) who also provided the fix.
+ Commit 0509c58045. OVE-20211201-0002. CVE-2021-44541.
+ - send_http_request(): Prevent memory leaks when handling errors
+ Reported by Joshua Rogers (Opera) who also provided the fix.
+ Commit c48d1d6d08. OVE-20211201-0001. CVE-2021-44542.
- Bug fixes:
- handle_established_connection(): Skip the poll()/select() calls
when unloading an action file with a TAG pattern while
Privoxy has been compiled without FEATURE_PCRE_HOST_PATTERNS.
Closes: SF patch request #147. Patch by Maxim Antonov.
- - Establish the TLS connection with the client earlier and decide
- how to route the request afterwards. This allows to change the
- forwarding settings based on information from the https-inspected
- request, for example the path.
- Adjust build_request_line() to create a CONNECT request line when
https-inspecting and forwarding to a HTTP proxy.
Fixes SF bug #925 reported by Wen Yue.
- load_config(): Add a space that was missing in a log message.
+ - read_http_request_body(): Fix two error messages that used an
+ incorrect variable.
+ - If the the response is chunk-encoded, ignore the Content-Length
+ header sent by the server.
+ Allows to load https://redmine.lighttpd.net/ with filtering enabled.
- General improvements:
+ - Allow to edit the add-header action through the CGI editor by
+ generalizing the code that got added with the suppress-tag action.
+ Closes SF patch request #146. Patch by Maxim Antonov.
+ - Add a CGI handler for /wpad.dat that returns a
+ Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file.
+ Among other things, it can be used to instruct clients
+ through DHCP to use Privoxy as proxy.
+ For example with the dnsmasq option:
+ dhcp-option=252,http://config.privoxy.org/wpad.dat
+ Initial patch by Richard Schneidt.
+ - Don't log the applied actions in process_encrypted_request()
+ Log them in continue_https_chat() instead to mirror chat().
+ Prevents the applied actions from getting logged twice
+ for the first request on an https-inspected connection.
+ - OpenSSL generate_host_certificate(): Use config.privoxy.org as Common Name
+ Org and Org Unit if the real host name is too long to get accepted by OpenSSL.
+ Clients should only care about the Subject Alternative Name
+ anyway and we can continue to use the real host name for it.
+ Reported by Miles Wen on privoxy-users@.
+ - Establish the TLS connection with the client earlier and decide
+ how to route the request afterwards. This allows to change the
+ forwarding settings based on information from the https-inspected
+ request, for example the path.
+ - listen_loop(): When shutting down gracefully, close listening ports
+ before waiting for the threads to exit. Allows to start a second
+ Privoxy with the same config file while the first Privoxy is still
+ running.
- serve(): Close the client socket as well if the server socket
for an inspected connection has been closed. Privoxy currently
can't establish a new server connection when the client socket
is reused and would drop the connection in continue_https_chat()
anyway.
- - Don't disable redirect checkers in redirect_url()
+ - Don't disable redirect checkers in redirect_url().
Disable them in handle_established_connection() instead.
Doing it in redirect_url() prevented the +redirect{} and
+fast-redirects{} actions from being logged with LOG_LEVEL_ACTIONS.
- - handle_established_connection(): Slightly improve a comment
- - handle_established_connection(): Fix a comment
+ - handle_established_connection(): Slightly improve a comment.
+ - handle_established_connection(): Fix a comment.
- socks5_connect(): Fix indentation.
- - handle_established_connection(): Improve an error message
- - create_pattern_spec(): Fix ifdef indentation
- - Fix comment typos
- - Add a CGI handler for /wpad.dat that returns a
- Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file.
- Among other things, it can be used to instruct clients
- through DHCP to use Privoxy as proxy.
- For example with the dnsmasq option:
- dhcp-option=252,http://config.privoxy.org/wpad.dat
- Initial patch by Richard Schneidt.
- - listen_loop(): When shutting down gracefully, close listening ports
- before waiting for the threads to exit.
- Allows to start a second Privoxy with the same config file
- while the first Privoxy is still running.
- - Allow to edit the add-header action through the CGI editor by
- generalizing the code that got added with the suppress-tag action.
- Closes SF patch request #146. Patch by Maxim Antonov.
- - process_encrypted_request(): Improve a log message
+ - handle_established_connection(): Improve an error message.
+ - create_pattern_spec(): Fix ifdef indentation.
+ - Fix comment typos.
+ - process_encrypted_request(): Improve a log message.
The function only processes request headers and there
may still be unread request body data left to process.
- - read_http_request_body(): Fix two error messages that used an incorrect variable.
- chat(): Log the applied actions before deciding how to forward the request.
- parse_time_header(): Silence a coverity complaint when building without assertions.
- - receive_encrypted_request_headers(): Improve a log message
+ - receive_encrypted_request_headers(): Improve a log message.
- mbedTLS get_ciphersuites_from_string(): Use strlcpy() instead of strncpy().
Previously the terminating NUL wasn't copied which resulted
in a compiler warning. This didn't cause actual problems as
the target buffer was initialized by zalloc_or_die() so the
last byte of the target buffer was NUL already.
Actually copying the terminating NUL seems clearer, though.
- - Remove compiler warnings. "log_error(LOG_LEVEL_FATAL, ..." doesn't return
- but apparently the compiler doesn't know that.
- Get rid of several "this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]" warnings.
- - If the the response is chunk-encoded, ignore the Content-Length
- header sent by the server.
- Allows to load https://redmine.lighttpd.net/ with filtering enabled.
+ - Remove compiler warnings. "log_error(LOG_LEVEL_FATAL, ..."
+ doesn't return but apparently the compiler doesn't know that.
+ Get rid of several "this statement may fall through
+ [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]" warnings.
- Store the PEM certificate in a dynamically allocated buffer
when https-inspecting. Should prevent errors like:
2021-03-16 22:36:19.148 7f47bbfff700 Error: X509 PEM cert len 16694 is larger than buffer len 16383
As a bonus it should slightly reduce the memory usage as most
certificates are smaller than the previously used fixed buffer.
Reported by: Wen Yue
- - Don't log the applied actions in process_encrypted_request()
- Log them in continue_https_chat() instead to mirror chat().
- Prevents the applied actions from getting logged twice
- for the first request on an https-inspected connection.
- - OpenSSL generate_host_certificate(): Use config.privoxy.org as Common Name
- Org and Org Unit if the real host name is too long to get accepted by OpenSSL.
- Clients should only care about the Subject Alternative Name
- anyway and we can continue to use the real host name for it.
- Reported by Miles Wen on privoxy-users@.
- OpenSSL generate_host_certificate(): Fix two error messsages.
- Improve description of handle_established_connection()
- OpenSSL ssl_store_cert(): Translate EVP_PKEY_EC to a string.
- Action file improvements:
- Disable fast-redirects for .microsoftonline.com/.
- Disable fast-redirects for idp.springer.com/.
- - Disable fast-redirects for .zeit.de/zustimmung
- - Unblock adv-archiv.dfn-cert.de/
- - Block requests to eu-tlp01.kameleoon.eu/
- - Block requests to fpa-events.arstechnica.com/
+ - Disable fast-redirects for .zeit.de/zustimmung.
+ - Unblock adv-archiv.dfn-cert.de/.
+ - Block requests to eu-tlp01.kameleoon.eu/.
+ - Block requests to fpa-events.arstechnica.com/.
- Unblock nlnet.nl/.
- Unblock adguard.com/.
- Privoxy-Log-Parser:
- - Highlight 'Socket timeout 3 reached: http://127.0.0.1:20000/no-filter/chunked-content/36'
- - Improve documentation for inactivity-detection mode
- - Detect date changes when looking for inactivity
+ - Highlight 'Socket timeout 3 reached: http://127.0.0.1:20000/no-filter/chunked-content/36'.
+ - Improve documentation for inactivity-detection mode.
+ - Detect date changes when looking for inactivity.
- Add a --passed-request-statistics-threshold option
- That can be set to get statistics for requests that
+ that can be set to get statistics for requests that
were passed.
- - Add a "inactivity detection" mode
- Which can be useful for debugging purposes.
- - Bump version to 0.9.4
- - Only run print_intro() and print_outro() when syntax highlighting
- - Rephrase a sentence in the documentation
- - Highlight 'Client socket 7 is no longer usable. The server socket has been closed.'
- - Clarify --statistics output
- by explicitly mentioning that the status codes
- sent by the server may differ from the ones in
- "debug 512" messages.
- - Fix typo in the --statistics output
- - Remove an unused variable
- - Highlight 'The peer notified us that the connection on socket 11 is going to be closed'
+ - Add a "inactivity detection" mode which can be useful
+ for debugging purposes.
+ - Bump version to 0.9.4.
+ - Only run print_intro() and print_outro() when syntax highlighting.
+ - Rephrase a sentence in the documentation.
+ - Highlight 'Client socket 7 is no longer usable. The server socket has been closed.'.
+ - Clarify --statistics output by explicitly mentioning that
+ the status codes sent by the server may differ from the ones
+ in "debug 512" messages.
+ - Fix typo in the --statistics output.
+ - Remove an unused variable.
+ - Highlight 'The peer notified us that the connection on socket 11 is going to be closed'.
- Privoxy-Regression-Test:
- Remove duplicated word in a comment.
- Add a test for CVE-2021-20217.
- uagen:
- - Bump generated Firefox version to 91 (ESR)
- - Bump version to 1.2.3
- - Bump copyright
+ - Bump generated Firefox version to 91 (ESR).
+ - Bump version to 1.2.3.
+ - Bump copyright.
- Build system:
- configure: Bump SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
- GNUmakefile.in: Fix typo.
- - configure: Add another warning in case --disable-pthread is used
- while POSIX threads are available.
+ - configure: Add another warning in case --disable-pthread
+ is used while POSIX threads are available.
Various features don't even compile when not using threads.
- Add configure option to enable MemorySanitizer.
- Add configure option to enable UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.
- Add configure option to enable AddressSanitizer.
- - Bump copyright
+ - Bump copyright.
- Add a configure option to disable pcre JIT compilation.
While JIT compilation makes filtering faster it can
cause false-positive valgrind complaints.
As reported by Gwyn Ciesla in SF bug 924 it also can
cause problems when the SELinux policy does not grant
Privoxy "execmem" privileges.
- - configure: Remove obsolete RPM_BASE check
+ - configure: Remove obsolete RPM_BASE check.
- Windows build system:
- Update the build script to use mbed tls version 2.6.11.
- Update build script to use the final 8.45 pcre library.
- Put all the '--enable-xxx' options in the configure call together.
+- macOS build system:
+ - The OSXPackageBuilder repository has been updated and
+ can be used to create macOS packages again.
+
- Documentation:
- contacting: Remove obsolete reference to announce.sgml.
- contacting: Request that the browser cache is cleared before
Make it easier for users to do the right thing by having all those
options present in the config.
- Update TODO list item #184 to note that WolfSSL support will
- (hopefully) appear after the 3.0.34 release
+ (hopefully) appear after the 3.0.34 release.
- Update max-client-connections's description.
On modern systems other than Windows Privoxy should
use poll() in which case the FD_SETSIZE value isn't
releveant.
- Add a warning that the socket-timeout does not apply
- to operations done by TLS libraries
+ to operations done by TLS libraries.
- Make documentation slightly less "offensive" for some people
by avoiding the word "hell".
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-Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2021 the
+Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2023 the
Privoxy team. https://www.privoxy.org/
Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written