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diff --git a/docs/v2.3.4-ReleaseNotes b/docs/v2.3.4-ReleaseNotes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb5a411 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/v2.3.4-ReleaseNotes @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +Cryptsetup 2.3.4 Release Notes +============================== +Stable bug-fix release with a security fix (32-bit only). + +All users of cryptsetup 2.2.x and later should upgrade to this version. + +Changes since version 2.3.3 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +* Fix a possible out-of-bounds memory write while validating LUKS2 data + segments metadata (CVE-2020-14382). + + This problem can be triggered only on 32-bit builds (64-bit systems + are not affected). + + LUKS2 format validation code contains a bug in segments validation code + where the code does not check for possible overflow on memory allocation. + + Due to the bug, the libcryptsetup can be tricked to expect such allocation + was successful. Later it may read data from image crafted by an attacker and + actually write such data beyond allocated memory. + + The bug was introduced in cryptsetup 2.2.0. All later releases until 2.3.4 + are affected. + + If you only backport the fix for this CVE, these master branch git commits + should be backported: + 52f5cb8cedf22fb3e14c744814ec8af7614146c7 + 46ee71edcd13e1dad50815ad65c28779aa6f7503 + 752c9a52798f11d3b765b673ebaa3058eb25316e + + Thanks to Tobias Stoeckmann for discovering this issue. + +* Ignore reported optimal IO size if not aligned to minimal page size. + + Some USB enclosures report bogus block device topology (see lsblk -t) that + prevents LUKS2 format with 4k sector size (reported values are not correctly + aligned). The code now ignores such values and uses the default alignment. + +* Added support for new no_read/write_wrokqueue dm-crypt options (kernel 5.9). + + These performance options, introduced in kernel 5.9, configure dm-crypt + to bypass read or write workqueues and run encryption synchronously. + + Use --perf-no_read_workqueue or --perf-no_write_workqueue cryptsetup arguments + to use these dm-crypt flags. + + These options are available only for low-level dm-crypt performance tuning, + use only if you need a change to default dm-crypt behavior. + + For LUKS2, these flags can be persistently stored in metadata with + the --persistent option. + +* Added support panic_on_corruption option for dm-verity devices (kernel 5.9). + + Veritysetup now supports --panic-on-corruption argument that configures + the dm-verity device to panics kernel if a corruption is detected. + + This option is intended for specific configurations, do not use it in + standard configurations. + +* Support --master-key-file option for online LUKS2 reencryption + + This can be used for reencryption of devices that uses protected key AES cipher + on some mainframes crypto accelerators. + +* Always return EEXIST error code if a device already exists. + + Some libcryptsetup functions (activate_by*) now return EEXIST error code, + so the caller can distinguish that call fails because some parallel process + already activated the device. + Previously all fails returned EINVAL (invalid value). + +* Fix a problem in integritysetup if a hash algorithm has dash in the name. + + If users want to use blake2b/blake2s, the kernel algorithm name includes + a dash (like "blake2s-256"). + Theses algorithms can now be used for integritysetup devices. + +* Fix crypto backend to properly handle ECB mode. + + Even though it should never be used, it should still work for testing :) + This fixes a bug introduced in cryptsetup version 2.3.2. + +* TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt compatible mode now supports the activation of devices + with a larger sector. + + TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt always uses 512-byte sector for encryption, but for devices + with a larger native sector, it stores this value in the header. + + This patch allows activation of such devices, basically ignoring + the mentioned sector size. + +* LUKS2: Do not create excessively large headers. + + When creating a LUKS2 header with a specified --offset larger than + the LUKS2 header size, do not create a larger file than needed. + +* Fix unspecified sector size for BitLocker compatible mode. + + Some BitLocker devices can contain zeroed sector size in the header. + In this case, the 512-byte sector should be used. + The bug was introduced in version 2.3.3. + +* Fix reading key data size in metadata for BitLocker compatible mode. + + Such devices with an unexpected entry in metadata can now be activated. + + Thanks to all users reporting these problems, BitLocker metadata documentation + is not publicly available, and we depend only on these reports. + +* Fix typos in documentation. |