Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-0375 - Reachable Assertion vulnerability in Torproject TOR

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
torproject
CWE-617
nessus

Summary

The hidden-service feature in Tor before 0.3.0.8 allows a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) in the relay_send_end_cell_from_edge_ function via a malformed BEGIN cell.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Torproject
387

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-B2C714515B.NASL
    descriptionupdate to upstream release 0.3.1.7 ---- update to upstream release 0.2.9.12 (SECURITY) (#1494860) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2018-01-15
    plugin id105958
    published2018-01-15
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/105958
    titleFedora 27 : tor (2017-b2c714515b)
    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 FEDORA-2017-b2c714515b.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(105958);
      script_version("1.4");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2017-0375", "CVE-2017-0380");
      script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2017-b2c714515b");
    
      script_name(english:"Fedora 27 : tor (2017-b2c714515b)");
      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:
    "update to upstream release 0.3.1.7
    
    ----
    
    update to upstream release 0.2.9.12 (SECURITY) (#1494860)
    
    Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
    description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
    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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-b2c714515b"
      );
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected tor package.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
    
      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:27");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/06/09");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/10/10");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/01/15");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      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 = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
    if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
    os_ver = os_ver[1];
    if (! preg(pattern:"^27([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 27", "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:"FC27", reference:"tor-0.3.1.7-1.fc27")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      security_report_v4(
        port       : 0,
        severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
        extra      : rpm_report_get()
      );
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "tor");
    }
    
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2017-690.NASL
    descriptionThis update to tor 0.2.9.11 fixes the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2017-0375: remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service handles a malformed BEGIN cell (bsc#1043455) - CVE-2017-0376: remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit (bsc#1043456)
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-06-16
    plugin id100831
    published2017-06-16
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100831
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : tor (openSUSE-2017-690)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2017-690.
    #
    # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(100831);
      script_version("3.3");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2017-0375", "CVE-2017-0376");
    
      script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : tor (openSUSE-2017-690)");
      script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2017-690 patch");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "This update to tor 0.2.9.11 fixes the following vulnerabilities :
    
      - CVE-2017-0375: remotely triggerable assertion failure
        when a hidden service handles a malformed BEGIN cell
        (bsc#1043455)
    
      - CVE-2017-0376: remotely triggerable assertion failure
        caused by receiving a BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service
        rendezvous circuit (bsc#1043456)"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1043455"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1043456"
      );
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected tor packages.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tor");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tor-debuginfo");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tor-debugsource");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/06/15");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/06/16");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
      script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
    
      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/SuSE/release");
    if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
    if (release !~ "^(SUSE42\.2)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "42.2", release);
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);
    
    flag = 0;
    
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"tor-0.2.9.11-8.3.1") ) flag++;
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"tor-debuginfo-0.2.9.11-8.3.1") ) flag++;
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"tor-debugsource-0.2.9.11-8.3.1") ) 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 / tor-debuginfo / tor-debugsource");
    }
    

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/143369/orionbrowser79-mitm.txt
idPACKETSTORM:143369
last seen2017-07-15
published2017-07-14
reporterMaXe
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143369/Orion-Elite-Hidden-IP-Browser-Pro-7.9-OpenSSL-Tor-Man-In-The-Middle.html
titleOrion Elite Hidden IP Browser Pro 7.9 OpenSSL / Tor / Man-In-The-Middle