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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-8821: tor Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-8821: tor Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/03/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/08/2017
Modified
06/17/2022

Description

In Tor before 0.2.5.16, 0.2.6 through 0.2.8 before 0.2.8.17, 0.2.9 before 0.2.9.14, 0.3.0 before 0.3.0.13, and 0.3.1 before 0.3.1.9, an attacker can cause a denial of service (application hang) via crafted PEM input that signifies a public key requiring a password, which triggers an attempt by the OpenSSL library to ask the user for the password, aka TROVE-2017-011.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-tor

References

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