NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting privoxy package, versions <3.0.21-7+deb8u1ubuntu0.1~esm1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.57% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-PRIVOXY-1086067
  • published16 Mar 2021
  • disclosed25 Mar 2021

Introduced: 16 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-20213  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 privoxy to version 3.0.21-7+deb8u1ubuntu0.1~esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream privoxy package and not the privoxy package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.29. Dereference of a NULL-pointer that could result in a crash if accept-intercepted-requests was enabled, Privoxy failed to get the request destination from the Host header and a memory allocation failed.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1