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Medium
CVE-2012-3517
Use-after-free vulnerability in dns.c in Tor before 0.2.2.38 might allow...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-03.xml
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849949
- https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2012-August/000086.html
- https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/62637fa22405278758febb1743da9af562524d4c
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/21/6
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00048.html
- https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6480
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088006.html
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Affected Vendor
Affected Software
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Vulnerable Versions:
0
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 26th, 2012
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.