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CVE-2021-44541

Published: 23 December 2021

A vulnerability was found in Privoxy which was fixed in process_encrypted_request_headers() by freeing header memory when failing to get the request destination.

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
introduced in 2ce0e1244 (v3.0.29)

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
privoxy
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
focal Not vulnerable
(code not present)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Not vulnerable
(3.0.33-1)
trusty Not vulnerable
(code not present)
upstream
Released (3.0.33-1)
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
Patches:
upstream: https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=commitdiff;h=0509c58045

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H