Security Advisory

CVE-2017-8821

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-12-03 07:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 16:48:22
Assigner debian
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In Tor before 0.2.5.16, 0.2.6 through 0.2.8 before 0.2.8.17, 0.2.9 before 0.2.9.14, 0.3.0 before 0.3.0.13, and 0.3.1 before 0.3.1.9, an attacker can cause a denial of service (application hang) via crafted PEM input that signifies a public key requiring a password, which triggers an attempt by the OpenSSL library to ask the user for the password, aka TROVE-2017-011.