Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-0492 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in TOR

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
tor
CWE-399
nessus

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Tor
207

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2011-0650.NASL
    description - Mon Jan 17 2011 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.29-1300 - updated to 0.2.1.29 (SECURITY) - CVE-2011-0427: heap overflow bug, potential remote code execution - Tue Dec 21 2010 Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com> - 0.2.1.28-1300 - updated to 0.2.1.28 (SECURITY: fixes a remotely exploitable heap overflow bug) - Fri Nov 26 2010 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.27-1300 - updated to 0.2.1.27 - work around broken chkconfig by adding dummy Default-Start: in -lsb (#647512) - Fri Nov 26 2010 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - fixed
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id55002
    published2011-06-09
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/55002
    titleFedora 13 : tor-0.2.1.29-1300.fc13 (2011-0650)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2011-0650.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(55002);
      script_version("1.10");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:33");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2011-0015", "CVE-2011-0016", "CVE-2011-0427", "CVE-2011-0490", "CVE-2011-0491", "CVE-2011-0492", "CVE-2011-0493");
      script_bugtraq_id(45832, 45953);
      script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2011-0650");
    
      script_name(english:"Fedora 13 : tor-0.2.1.29-1300.fc13 (2011-0650)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "  - Mon Jan 17 2011 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at
        informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.29-1300
    
        - updated to 0.2.1.29 (SECURITY)
    
        - CVE-2011-0427: heap overflow bug, potential remote
          code execution
    
        - Tue Dec 21 2010 Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com> -
          0.2.1.28-1300
    
        - updated to 0.2.1.28 (SECURITY: fixes a remotely
          exploitable heap overflow bug)
    
        - Fri Nov 26 2010 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at
          informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.27-1300
    
        - updated to 0.2.1.27
    
        - work around broken chkconfig by adding dummy
          Default-Start: in -lsb (#647512)
    
        - Fri Nov 26 2010 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at
          informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
    
        - fixed 'limit' statement in upstart script
    
        - Tue Jun 1 2010 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at
          informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.26-1300
    
        - updated to 0.2.1.26
    
        - removed workaround to install lsb initscript because
          parts of the underlying problem have been fixed in
          redhat-lsb and the remaining ones were solved by
          previous commit
    
      - Tue Jun 1 2010 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at
        informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.25-1301
    
        - removed $local_fs dependency in -lsb initscript to
          workaround buggy redhat-lsb; $remote_fs should imply
          it
    
      - Thu Mar 18 2010 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at
        informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.25-1300
    
        - updated to 0.2.1.25
    
    Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
    description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
    has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
    without introducing additional issues."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671259"
      );
      # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061286.html
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?204d659a"
      );
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected tor package.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tor");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/01/21");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/06/09");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
      script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
    if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
    os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
    if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
    os_ver = os_ver[1];
    if (! ereg(pattern:"^13([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 13.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
    
    flag = 0;
    if (rpm_check(release:"FC13", reference:"tor-0.2.1.29-1300.fc13")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "tor");
    }
    
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2011-0642.NASL
    description - Mon Jan 17 2011 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.29-1400 - updated to 0.2.1.29 (SECURITY) - CVE-2011-0427: heap overflow bug, potential remote code execution - Tue Dec 21 2010 Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com> - 0.2.1.28-1400 - updated to 0.2.1.28 (SECURITY: fixes a remotely exploitable heap overflow bug) - Fri Nov 26 2010 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.27-1400 - updated to 0.2.1.27 - work around broken chkconfig by adding dummy Default-Start: in -lsb (#647512) - Fri Nov 26 2010 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.1.26-1401 - fixed
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id53901
    published2011-05-16
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/53901
    titleFedora 14 : tor-0.2.1.29-1400.fc14 (2011-0642)
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201110-13.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201110-13 (Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tor. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Tor process or create a Denial of Service. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id56549
    published2011-10-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2011-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56549
    titleGLSA-201110-13 : Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities