CVE-2021-20216

high

Description

A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.31. A memory leak that occurs when decompression fails unexpectedly may lead to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

References

https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.31/user-manual/whatsnew.html

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/31/2

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-16

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1923256

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-03-25

Updated: 2022-08-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High