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    CVE-2011-0015

    Tor before 0.2.1.29 and 0.2.2.x before 0.2.2.21-alpha does not properly check the amount of compression in zlib-compressed data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large compression factor.

    Published:Jan 19, 2011
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Jan 19, 2011
    EPSS Score:0.02346
    CVSS Score:5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Tor
    Product
    Tor

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

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    References

    http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/Jan-2011/msg00000.html
    http://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-02129-released-security-patches
    http://secunia.com/advisories/42905
    http://secunia.com/advisories/42907
    http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2148
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/18/7
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45832
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024980
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0131
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0132
    https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/refs/heads/release-0.2.2:/ChangeLog
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2324
    http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/Jan-2011/msg00000.html
    http://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-02129-released-security-patches
    http://secunia.com/advisories/42905
    http://secunia.com/advisories/42907
    http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2148
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/18/7
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45832
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024980
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0131
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0132
    https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/refs/heads/release-0.2.2:/ChangeLog
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2324

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High