Vulnerability in Tor
CVE-2012-3517
Use-after-free vulnerability in dns.c in Tor before 0.2.2.38 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via vectors related to failed DNS requests.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.028 (85.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 85.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.028 · newest: 0.028 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-03.xml (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2012-August/000086.html (mailing-list)
- gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/62637fa22405278758febb1743da9af562524d4c
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/21/6 (mailing-list)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00048.html (vendor-advisory)
- trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6480 (Patch)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088006.html (vendor-advisory)