CVE-2021-44540

Summary

CVECVE-2021-44540
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-23 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:39:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability was found in Privoxy which was fixed in get_url_spec_param() by freeing memory of compiled pattern spec before bailing.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-401

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Privoxy Privoxy All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.privoxy.org Git - privoxy.git/commit MISC www.privoxy.org
404 Not Found www.privoxy.org
404 Not Found MISC www.privoxy.org
www.privoxy.org Git www.privoxy.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178937 Debian Security Update for privoxy (DLA 2844-1)
  • 179522 Debian Security Update for privoxy (CVE-2021-44540)
  • 199134 Ubuntu Security Notification for Privoxy Vulnerabilities (USN-5826-1)
  • 296062 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 43.113.3 Missing (CPUJAN2022)
  • 354928 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for privoxy : ALAS-2023-1739
  • 500551 Alpine Linux Security Update for privoxy
  • 504320 Alpine Linux Security Update for privoxy
  • 690748 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for privoxy (897e1962-5d5a-11ec-a3ed-040e3c3cf7e7)
  • 751572 OpenSUSE Security Update for privoxy (openSUSE-SU-2021:1646-1)
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