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FKIE_CVE-2021-44541

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-12-23 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:12
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A vulnerability was found in Privoxy which was fixed in process_encrypted_request_headers() by freeing header memory when failing to get the request destination.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.privoxy.org/3.0.33/user-manual/whatsnew.html%2C
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=652b4b7cb0
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.33/user-manual/whatsnew.html%2C
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=652b4b7cb0
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
privoxy privoxy *
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