CVE-2021-44541 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2021-44541 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1193584 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2021:1646-1, published Fri Dec 31 03:50:24 2021
openSUSE-SU-2022:10186-1, published Wed Nov 2 18:44:09 2022

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3	`privoxy >= 3.0.33-bp153.2.3.1` `privoxy-doc >= 3.0.33-bp153.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-1646
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4	`privoxy >= 3.0.33-bp154.3.3.1` `privoxy-doc >= 3.0.33-bp154.3.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10186
openSUSE Leap 15.2	`privoxy >= 3.0.33-lp152.3.12.1` `privoxy-doc >= 3.0.33-lp152.3.12.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-1646
openSUSE Leap 15.3	`privoxy >= 3.0.33-bp153.2.3.1` `privoxy-doc >= 3.0.33-bp153.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-1646
openSUSE Leap 15.4	`privoxy >= 3.0.33-bp154.3.3.1` `privoxy-doc >= 3.0.33-bp154.3.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10186
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`privoxy >= 3.0.33-1.1` `privoxy-doc >= 3.0.33-1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11677

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s)	Source package	State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3	privoxy	Released
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4	privoxy	Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Dec 9 14:00:02 2021
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 17:00:32 2025