Out-of-Bounds Affecting tor package, versions [,0.3.5.11)(0.4.2.0,0.4.2.8)(0.4.3.0,0.4.3.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOR-2371332
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Jul 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Jul 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade tor to version 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

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