CVE-2018-0491

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.0

Description

A use-after-free issue was discovered in Tor 0.3.2.x before 0.3.2.10. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (relay crash) because the KIST implementation allows a channel to be added more than once in the pending list.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-44994 dos linux
t4rkd3vilz · 2018-07-09

Tor Browser < 0.3.2.10 - Use After Free (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.3.2.10-1
sid Fixed 0.3.2.10-1
forky Fixed 0.3.2.10-1
bullseye Fixed 0.3.2.10-1
bookworm Fixed 0.3.2.10-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.