.. _the "historical known issues" document: historical/historical_known_issues.txt
-Known Issues in Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.0, released 31-Oct-2011
+Known Issues in Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.1, released 12-Jan-2012
=======================================================
* `Unauthorized access by JavaScript in unrelated files`_
structure. Also, users that access the same files may be related to each other.
+----
+
+Known Issues in Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.0, released 31-Oct-2011
+=======================================================
+
+
+Integrity Failure during Mutable Downloads
+------------------------------------------
+
+Under certain circumstances, the integrity-verification code of the mutable
+downloader could be bypassed. Clients who receive carefully crafted shares
+(from attackers) will emit incorrect file contents, and the usual
+share-corruption errors would not be raised. This only affects mutable files
+(not immutable), and only affects downloads that use doctored shares. It is
+not persistent: the threat is resolved once you upgrade your client to a
+version without the bug. However, read-modify-write operations (such as
+directory manipulations) performed by vulnerable clients could cause the
+attacker's modifications to be written back out to the mutable file, making
+the corruption permanent.
+
+The attacker's ability to manipulate the file contents is limited. They can
+modify FEC-encoded ciphertext in all but one share. This gives them the
+ability to blindly flip bits in roughly 2/3rds of the file (for the default
+k=3 encoding parameter). Confidentiality remains intact, unless the attacker
+can deduce the file's contents by observing your reactions to corrupted
+downloads.
+
+This bug was introduced in 1.9.0, as part of the MDMF-capable downloader, and
+affects both SDMF and MDMF files. It was not present in 1.8.3.
+
+*how to manage it*
+
+There are three options:
+
+* Upgrade to 1.9.1, which fixes the bug
+* Downgrade to 1.8.3, which does not contain the bug
+* If using 1.9.0, do not trust the contents of mutable files (whether SDMF or
+ MDMF) that the 1.9.0 client emits, and do not modify directories (which
+ could write the corrupted data back into place, making the damage
+ persistent)
+
+
+.. _#1654: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1654
+
----
Known Issues in Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.2, released 30-Jan-2011
-
import os, re, base64
from cStringIO import StringIO
from twisted.trial import unittest
self.failUnlessEqual(data, CONTENTS))
return d
+ def test_1654(self):
+ # test that the Retrieve object unconditionally verifies the block
+ # hash tree root for mutable shares. The failure mode is that
+ # carefully crafted shares can cause undetected corruption (the
+ # retrieve appears to finish successfully, but the result is
+ # corrupted). When fixed, these shares always cause a
+ # CorruptShareError, which results in NotEnoughSharesError in this
+ # 2-of-2 file.
+ self.basedir = "mutable/Problems/test_1654"
+ self.set_up_grid(num_servers=2)
+ cap = uri.from_string(TEST_1654_CAP)
+ si = cap.get_storage_index()
+
+ for share, shnum in [(TEST_1654_SH0, 0), (TEST_1654_SH1, 1)]:
+ sharedata = base64.b64decode(share)
+ storedir = self.get_serverdir(shnum)
+ storage_path = os.path.join(storedir, "shares",
+ storage_index_to_dir(si))
+ fileutil.make_dirs(storage_path)
+ fileutil.write(os.path.join(storage_path, "%d" % shnum),
+ sharedata)
+
+ nm = self.g.clients[0].nodemaker
+ n = nm.create_from_cap(TEST_1654_CAP)
+ # to exercise the problem correctly, we must ensure that sh0 is
+ # processed first, and sh1 second. NoNetworkGrid has facilities to
+ # stall the first request from a single server, but it's not
+ # currently easy to extend that to stall the second request (mutable
+ # retrievals will see two: first the mapupdate, then the fetch).
+ # However, repeated executions of this run without the #1654 fix
+ # suggests that we're failing reliably even without explicit stalls,
+ # probably because the servers are queried in a fixed order. So I'm
+ # ok with relying upon that.
+ d = self.shouldFail(NotEnoughSharesError, "test #1654 share corruption",
+ "ran out of servers",
+ n.download_best_version)
+ return d
+
+
+TEST_1654_CAP = "URI:SSK:6jthysgozssjnagqlcxjq7recm:yxawei54fmf2ijkrvs2shs6iey4kpdp6joi7brj2vrva6sp5nf3a"
+
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+
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+
class FileHandle(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):