CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-8820

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-12-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In Tor before 0.2.5.16, 0.2.6 through 0.2.8 before 0.2.8.17, 0.2.9 before 0.2.9.14, 0.3.0 before 0.3.0.13, and 0.3.1 before 0.3.1.9, remote attackers can cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) against directory authorities via a malformed descriptor, aka TROVE-2017-010.

Affected configurations

• tor project tor (< 0.2.5.16) • tor project tor (>= 0.2.6 < 0.2.8.17) • tor project tor (>= 0.2.9 < 0.2.9.14) • tor project tor (>= 0.3.0 < 0.3.0.13) • tor project tor (>= 0.3.1 < 0.3.1.9) • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References