CVE-2020-15572

NameCVE-2020-15572
DescriptionTor before 0.4.3.6 has an out-of-bounds memory access that allows a remote denial-of-service (crash) attack against Tor instances built to use Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), aka TROVE-2020-001.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
tor (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye0.4.5.16-1fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)0.4.7.16-1fixed
sid, trixie0.4.8.13-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
torsource(unstable)0.4.3.6-1unimportant

Notes

Tor in Debian doesn't use NSS
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-03511-0428-0436-security-fixes

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