Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package privoxy  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-PRIVOXY-2315282
  • published10 Dec 2021
  • disclosed23 Dec 2021

Introduced: 10 Dec 2021

CVE-2021-44541  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

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

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.