Vulnerability CVE-2012-3517
Published: 2012-08-25   Modified: 2012-08-26

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
TOR -> TOR 

 References:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6480
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2012-August/000086.html
https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/62637fa22405278758febb1743da9af562524d4c
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849949
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/21/6
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00048.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088006.html
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