Bug 2161253 (CVE-2023-23589) - CVE-2023-23589 tor: SAFESOCKS privilege escalation
Summary: CVE-2023-23589 tor: SAFESOCKS privilege escalation
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2023-23589
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2161254 2161255
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-01-16 12:05 UTC by Avinash Hanwate
Modified: 2023-01-20 21:52 UTC (History)
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Description Avinash Hanwate 2023-01-16 12:05:53 UTC 
The SafeSocks option in Tor before 0.4.7.13 has a logic error in which the unsafe SOCKS4 protocol can be used but not the safe SOCKS4a protocol, aka TROVE-2022-002.

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/commit/a282145b3634547ab84ccd959d0537c021ff7ffc
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40730
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/release-0.4.7/ReleaseNotes
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2023-01-16 12:06:24 UTC 
Created tor tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2161254]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2161255]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-01-20 21:52:09 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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