CVE-2010-1676

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-12-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Tor before 0.2.1.28 and 0.2.2.x before 0.2.2.20-alpha allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Tor: through 0.2.1.1.27; 0.0.2, 0.0.2_pre13, 0.0.2_pre14, 0.0.2_pre15, 0.0.2_pre16, 0.0.2_pre17 (+138)

References

http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/Dec-2010/msg00000.html
http://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-02128-released-security-patches
http://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-02220-alpha-out-security-patches
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052657.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052690.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42536
http://secunia.com/advisories/42667
http://secunia.com/advisories/42783
http://secunia.com/advisories/42916
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-02.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024910
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2136

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