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CVE-2011-0492
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2011-01-19 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-399
Description
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.
Affected products
- Tor: through 0.2.1.28; 0.0.2, 0.0.2_pre13, 0.0.2_pre14, 0.0.2_pre15, 0.0.2_pre16, 0.0.2_pre17 (+200)
References
- http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/Jan-2011/msg00000.html
- http://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-02129-released-security-patches
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45953
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64867
- https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/refs/heads/release-0.2.2:/ChangeLog
- https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2326
- http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/Jan-2011/msg00000.html
- http://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-02129-released-security-patches
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45953
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64867
- https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/refs/heads/release-0.2.2:/ChangeLog
- https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2326
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