CVE-2020-15572

Summary

CVECVE-2020-15572
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-15 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
DescriptionTor before 0.4.3.6 has an out-of-bounds memory access that allows a remote denial-of-service (crash) attack against Tor instances built to use Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), aka TROVE-2020-001.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Torproject Tor All All All All
Application Torproject Tor 0.4.4.0 alpha All All
Application Torproject Tor 0.4.4.1 alpha All All
Application Torproject Tor All All All All
Application Torproject Tor 0.4.4.0 alpha All All
Application Torproject Tor 0.4.4.1 alpha All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Resolve TROVE-2020-001 (denial-of-service against Tor built with NSS) (#33119) · Issues · The Tor Project / Core / Tor · GitLab MISC gitlab.torproject.org Vendor Advisory
TROVE – Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki MISC trac.torproject.org Vendor Advisory
New releases: Tor 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, and 0.4.3.6 (with security fixes) | Tor Blog CONFIRM blog.torproject.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 750586 OpenSUSE Security Update for tor (openSUSE-SU-2020:1970-1)
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