CVE-2007-1103 Information

Description

Tor does not verify a node’s uptime and bandwidth advertisements which allows remote attackers who operate a low resource node to make false claims of greater resources which places the node into use for many circuits and compromises the anonymity of traffic sources and destinations.

Reference

http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Feb-2007/msg00197.html http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Feb-2007/msg00200.html http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Feb-2007/msg00202.html http://osvdb.org/45249 http://www.cs.colorado.edu/department/publications/reports/docs/CU-CS-1025-07.pdf