Out-of-Bounds Affecting tor package, versions [,0.2.2.35)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOR-2371327
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Dec 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Dec 2011

CVE-2011-2778  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tor to version 0.2.2.35 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Tor before 0.2.2.35 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code by (1) establishing a SOCKS connection to SocksPort or (2) leveraging a SOCKS proxy configuration.

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