Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package privoxy  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.19% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-PRIVOXY-1070099
  • published4 Feb 2021
  • disclosed25 Mar 2021

Introduced: 4 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-20214  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream privoxy package and not the privoxy package as distributed by Debian.

A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.29. Memory leaks in the client-tags CGI handler when client tags are configured and memory allocations fail can lead to a system crash.