Bug 1406314 (CVE-2016-1254) - CVE-2016-1254 tor: Remote DoS via parsing problem
Summary: CVE-2016-1254 tor: Remote DoS via parsing problem
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-1254
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1406316 1406317
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-12-20 09:12 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:51 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: tor 0.2.8.12, tor 0.2.9.8
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Last Closed: 2017-03-03 14:31:22 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-12-20 09:12:41 UTC 
It was found that there is an issue with parsing that could ause clients to read a single byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening) to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of their platform's memory allocator.

External References:

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2016-December/000122.html

Upstream patch:

https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=d978216dea6b21ac38230a59d172139185a68dbd
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-12-20 09:14:08 UTC 
Created tor tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1406316]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1406317]
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