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CVE-2021-20274

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 09, 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
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20274
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

A flaw was found in privoxy before 3.0.32. A crash may occur due a NULL-pointer dereference when the socks server misbehaves.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
PrivoxyPrivoxy*3.0.32 (excluding)
PrivoxyUbuntutrusty*
PrivoxyUbuntuupstream*

Potential Mitigations

References

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