Bug 1928729 (CVE-2021-20210)

Summary: CVE-2021-20210 privoxy: memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when no filter files are configured
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: msiddiqu
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: cheese, gwync, karsten
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Security
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: Privoxy 3.0.29 Doc Type: No Doc Update
Doc Text:
Memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when no filter files are configured can lead to a system crash.
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Last Closed: 2021-02-15 16:09:49 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1928731, 1928732    
Bug Blocks: 1928928    

Description msiddiqu 2021-02-15 13:20:39 UTC
Memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when no filter files are configured

Upstream Patch:
 
https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=commit;h=1b1370f7a8a

External References:

https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.29/user-manual/whatsnew.html

Comment 1 msiddiqu 2021-02-15 13:21:07 UTC
Created privoxy tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1928732]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1928731]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-02-15 16:09:49 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.