CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-20213

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 25, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.29. 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.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
PrivoxyPrivoxy*3.0.29 (excluding)
PrivoxyUbuntubionic*
PrivoxyUbuntuesm-apps/bionic*
PrivoxyUbuntuesm-apps/focal*
PrivoxyUbuntuesm-apps/xenial*
PrivoxyUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
PrivoxyUbuntufocal*
PrivoxyUbuntugroovy*
PrivoxyUbuntutrusty*
PrivoxyUbuntutrusty/esm*
PrivoxyUbuntuupstream*
PrivoxyUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References