CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-0490
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-05
- 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
An issue was discovered in Tor before 0.2.9.15, 0.3.1.x before 0.3.1.10, and 0.3.2.x before 0.3.2.10. The directory-authority protocol-list subprotocol implementation allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and directory-authority crash) via a misformatted relay descriptor that is mishandled during voting.
Affected configurations
• torproject tor (<= 0.2.9.14)
• torproject tor (>= 0.3.1.7 <= 0.3.1.9)
• torproject tor 0.3.1.1
• torproject tor 0.3.1.2
• torproject tor 0.3.1.3
• torproject tor 0.3.1.4
• torproject tor 0.3.1.5
• torproject tor 0.3.1.6
• torproject tor 0.3.2.1
• torproject tor 0.3.2.2
• torproject tor 0.3.2.3
• torproject tor 0.3.2.4
• torproject tor 0.3.2.5
• torproject tor 0.3.2.6
• torproject tor 0.3.2.7
• torproject tor 0.3.2.8
• torproject tor 0.3.2.9
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://blog.torproject.org/new-stable-tor-releases-security-fixes-and-dos-prevention-03210-03110-02915 Vendor Advisory
- https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25074 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4183 Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.torproject.org/new-stable-tor-releases-security-fixes-and-dos-prevention-03210-03110-02915 Vendor Advisory
- https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25074 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4183 Third Party Advisory