Bug 1928739 (CVE-2021-20213)

Summary:	CVE-2021-20213 privoxy: dereference of a NULL-pointer that could result in a crash if accept-intercepted-requests was enabled
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	msiddiqu
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cheese, gwync, karsten
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	Privoxy 3.0.29	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	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.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2021-02-15 16:09:56 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:	1928740, 1928741
Bug Blocks:	1928924

Description msiddiqu 2021-02-15 13:22:42 UTC

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.

Upstream Patch:

https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=commit;h=7530132349

External References:

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

Comment 1 msiddiqu 2021-02-15 13:23:11 UTC

Created privoxy tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1928741]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1928740]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-02-15 16:09:56 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.