Vulnerability CVE-2021-20212
Published: 2021-03-25

Description:
A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.29. Memory leak if multiple filters are executed and the last one is skipped due to a pcre error leading to a system crash.

Type:

CWE-401

 (Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference ('Memory Leak'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
Privoxy -> Privoxy 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1928736
https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.29/user-manual/whatsnew.html
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