Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tor  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-TOR-611101
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed15 Jul 2020

Introduced: 15 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-15572  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tor package and not the tor package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Tor before 0.4.3.6 has an out-of-bounds memory access that allows a remote denial-of-service (crash) attack against Tor instances built to use Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), aka TROVE-2020-001.