CVE-2012-3517
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.77% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 86.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2012-08-26 01:00Z14 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 20:05Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-06-14
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ffa13fe3d46d979e2689fb127a38f0811cc873fcded6ffec43b193c96462fc21
05 Affected products
06 References
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201301-03http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-03.xml
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849949
- lists.torproject.org[tor-announce] 20120819 Tor 0.2.2.38 is releasedhttps://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2012-August/000086.html
- gitweb.torproject.orghttps://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/62637fa22405278758febb1743da9af562524d4c
- openwall.com[oss-security] 20120821 Re: CVE Request -- Tor 0.2.2.38: Three issueshttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/21/6
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2012:1068http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00048.html
- trac.torproject.orghttps://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6480
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2012-14638http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088006.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- tor Fixed in 0.2.3.20-rc-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- tor Fixed in 0.2.3.20-rc-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- tor Fixed in 0.2.3.20-rc-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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