CVE-2011-0490 Information

Description

Tor before 0.2.1.29 and 0.2.2.x before 0.2.2.21-alpha makes calls to Libevent within Libevent log handlers which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via vectors that trigger certain log messages.

Reference

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/64889 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/refs/heads/release-0.2.2:/ChangeLog https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2190