Upstream information

CVE-2017-8821 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1070849 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2017:3201-1 openSUSE-SU-2017:3203-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 12
  • tor >= 0.3.1.9-8.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2017-1336
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • tor >= 0.4.6.7-2.2
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11469

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Dec 1 21:18:22 2017
CVE page last modified: Tue Sep 3 18:48:59 2024