CVE-2012-3517: Use After Free
First published: Tue Aug 21 2012(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| redhat/tor | <0.2.2.38 | 0.2.2.38 |
| Tor Tor | <=0.2.2.37 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00048.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/21/6
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-03.xml
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849949
- https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/62637fa22405278758febb1743da9af562524d4c
- https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2012-August/000086.html
- https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6480
- https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commitdiff/62637fa22405278758febb1743da9af562524d4c
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776642
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=849952
- https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6530
- https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commitdiff/57e35ad3d91724882c345ac709666a551a977f0f
- https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commitdiff/55f635745afacefffdaafc72cc176ca7ab817546
- https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6537
- https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commitdiff/308f6dad20675c42b29862f4269ad1fbfb00dc9a
- https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commitdiff/d48cebc5e498b0ae673635f40fc57cdddab45d5b
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/21/3
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3517
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/21/6
- collector/nvd-index
- collector/redhat-bugzilla
- alias/CVE-2012-3517
- agent/author
- vendor/tor
- canonical/tor tor
- version/tor tor/0.2.2.37
- package-manager/redhat