National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3418

Overview

Tor before 0.1.1.20 does not validate that a server descriptor's fingerprint line matches its identity key, which allows remote attackers to spoof the fingerprint line, which might be trusted by users or other applications.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20514

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20514

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/ChangeLog

Hyperlink:http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/ChangeLog

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200606-04

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200606-04.xml