Bug 1923256 (CVE-2021-20216) - CVE-2021-20216 privoxy: Memory leak when decompression fails
Summary: CVE-2021-20216 privoxy: Memory leak when decompression fails
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2021-20216
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1923258
Blocks: 1928903
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-02-01 15:57 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-02-15 19:40 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: privoxy 3.0.31
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A flaw was found in Privoxy before version 3.0.31. A memory leak that occurs when decompression fails unexpectedly may lead to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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Last Closed: 2021-02-01 20:42:11 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-02-01 15:57:20 UTC 
A flaw was found in privoxy before version 3.0.31. A memory leak when decompression fails "unexpectedly" may lead to denial of service.

References:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/31/2
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2021-02-01 15:57:49 UTC 
Created privoxy tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1923258]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-02-01 20:42:11 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.
Comment 4 RaTasha Tillery-Smith 2021-02-10 15:38:03 UTC 
External References:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/31/2
https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.31/user-manual/whatsnew.html
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