CVE-2011-0492

Published: Jan 19, 2011Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-399

NVD MITRE

5.0CVSSMEDIUM

EPSS Score

Description

Tor before 0.2.1.29 and 0.2.2.x before 0.2.2.21-alpha allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via blobs that trigger a certain file size, as demonstrated by the cached-descriptors.new file.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAccess Vector

Network

AC:LAccess Complexity

Low

Au:NAuthentication

None

Impact

C:NConfidentiality

None

I:NIntegrity

None

A:PAvailability

Partial

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Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected Products

n/a n/a

tor tor

Mixed

Security Products / secure-gateway-vpn

toross-projectSecurity Productsaka tor project

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/Jan-2011/msg00000.html

archives.seul.org

https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/refs/heads/release-0.2.2:/ChangeLog

gitweb.torproject.org

http://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-02129-released-security-patches

blog.torproject.org

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Timeline

Published

Jan 19, 2011

Last Updated

Apr 29, 2026

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