Commit bf6702cf authored by Nick Mathewson's avatar Nick Mathewson 🤹
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r11645@Kushana: nickm | 2006-12-19 14:22:36 -0500

 Reject hostnames with invalid characters, in an attempt to catch more errors earlier.  Add an option to disable this behavior.


svn:r9156
parent 1ce86f1f
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@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ Changes in version 0.1.2.5-xxxx - 200?-??-??
      NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
    - Authorities do not recommend exits as guards if this would shift excess
      load to the exit nodes.
    - Avoid some inadvertent info leaks by making clients reject hostnames
      with invalid characters.  Add an option to disable this behavior,
      in case somebody is running a private network with hosts called @, !,
      and #.

  o Security bugfixes:
    - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
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@@ -96,12 +96,12 @@ d - Cache answers client-side
        o Add to Tor-resolve.py
        - Add to tor-resolve
d   - Be a DNS proxy.
    - Check for invalid characters in hostnames before trying to resolve
    o Check for invalid characters in hostnames before trying to resolve
      them.  (This will help catch attempts do to mean things to our DNS
      server, and bad software that tries to do DNS lookups on whole URLs.)
      - address_is_invalid_destination() is the right thing to call here
      o address_is_invalid_destination() is the right thing to call here
        (and feel free to make that function smarter)
      - add a config option to turn it off.
      o add a config option to turn it off.
    - Bug 364: notice when all the DNS requests we get back (including a few
      well-known sites) are all going to the same place.
    - Bug 363: Warn and die if we can't find a nameserver and we're running a
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@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ static config_var_t _option_vars[] = {
  VAR("__AllDirActionsPrivate",BOOL,   AllDirActionsPrivate, "0"),
  VAR("AllowInvalidNodes",   CSV,      AllowInvalidNodes,
                                                        "middle,rendezvous"),
  VAR("AllowNonRFC953Hostnames", BOOL, AllowNonRFC953Hostnames, "0"),
  VAR("AssumeReachable",     BOOL,     AssumeReachable,      "0"),
  VAR("AuthDirBadExit",      LINELIST, AuthDirBadExit,       NULL),
  VAR("AuthDirInvalid",      LINELIST, AuthDirInvalid,       NULL),
@@ -354,6 +355,8 @@ static config_var_description_t options_description[] = {
  /* ==== client options */
  { "AllowInvalidNodes", "Where on our circuits should Tor allow servers "
    "that the directory authorities haven't called \"valid\"?" },
  { "AllowNonRFC953Hostnames", "If set to 1, we don't automatically reject "
    "hostnames for having invalid characters." },
  /*  CircuitBuildTimeout, CircuitIdleTimeout */
  { "ClientOnly", "If set to 1, Tor will under no circumstances run as a "
    "server, even if ORPort is as configued." },
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@@ -1030,9 +1030,19 @@ addressmap_register_virtual_address(int type, char *new_address)
static int
address_is_invalid_destination(const char *address)
{
  /* FFFF should flesh this out */
  if (strchr(address,':'))
  if (get_options()->AllowNonRFC953Hostnames)
    return 0;

  while (*address) {
    if (TOR_ISALNUM(*address) ||
        *address == '-' ||
        *address == '.' ||
        *address == '_') /* Underscore is not allowed, but Windows does it
                          * sometimes, just to thumb its nose at the IETF. */
      ++address;
    else
      return 1;
  }
  return 0;
}

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@@ -1656,6 +1656,8 @@ typedef struct {
                               * same network zone in the same circuit. */
  int TunnelDirConns; /**< If true, use BEGIN_DIR rather than BEGIN when
                       * possible. */
  int AllowNonRFC953Hostnames;  /**< If true, we allow connections to hostnames
                                 * with weird characters. */
} or_options_t;

/** Persistent state for an onion router, as saved to disk. */