CVE-2021-44541 - 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

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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

Published Dec 23, 2021

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 1.39%

Description

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.

Affected products

Vendor n/a Product Privoxy Default
n/a
- Version
  Privoxy 3.0.33
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

n/a

Privoxy

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
Privoxy 3.0.33	affected	-

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-401

References (2)

https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.33/user-manual/whatsnew.html%2C
x_refsource_MISC
https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=652b4b7cb0
x_refsource_MISC

Link	Providers	Tags
https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.33/user-manual/whatsnew.html%2C		x_refsource_MISC
https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=652b4b7cb0		x_refsource_MISC

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner redhat

Published Dec 23, 2021

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Reserved Dec 3, 2021

Link CVE-2021-44541

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2021-44541

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2021-44541