Bug 1928746 (CVE-2021-20215) - CVE-2021-20215 privoxy: memory leaks in the show-status CGI handler when memory allocations fail
Summary: CVE-2021-20215 privoxy: memory leaks in the show-status CGI handler when memo...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2021-20215
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: 1928747 1928748
Blocks: 1928905
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-02-15 13:23 UTC by msiddiqu
Modified: 2021-02-19 15:05 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: Privoxy 3.0.29
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Memory leaks in the show-status CGI handler when memory allocations fail can lead to a system crash.
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Last Closed: 2021-02-15 16:10:00 UTC
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Description msiddiqu 2021-02-15 13:23:59 UTC 

Memory leaks in the show-status CGI handler when memory allocations fail

Upstream Patch:

https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=commit;h=064eac5fd0
https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=commit;h=fdee85c0bf3


External References:

https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.29/user-manual/whatsnew.html
Comment 1 msiddiqu 2021-02-15 13:24:22 UTC 
Created privoxy tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1928748]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1928747]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-02-15 16:10:00 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.
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