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CVE-2012-3517

Date: August 25, 2012

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (12)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3517

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088006.html

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-03.xml

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/21/6

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-3517

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00048.html

Url: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/62637fa22405278758febb1743da9af562524d4c

Url: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2012-August/000086.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3517

Url: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6480

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849949

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-3517

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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