CVE-2021-44540
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-12-23 19:48
Modified
2024-08-04 04:25
Severity ?
Summary
A vulnerability was found in Privoxy which was fixed in get_url_spec_param() by freeing memory of compiled pattern spec before bailing.
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
n/a Privoxy Version: Privoxy 3.0.33
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