Bug 1928739 (CVE-2021-20213) - CVE-2021-20213 privoxy: dereference of a NULL-pointer that could result in a crash if accept-intercepted-requests was enabled
Summary: CVE-2021-20213 privoxy: dereference of a NULL-pointer that could result in a ...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2021-20213
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: 1928740 1928741
Blocks: 1928924
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-02-15 13:22 UTC by msiddiqu
Modified: 2021-02-19 15:04 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: Privoxy 3.0.29
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Last Closed: 2021-02-15 16:09:56 UTC
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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.
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