High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 25, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-20213

Description

A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.29. Dereference of a NULL-pointer that could result in a crash if accept-intercepted-requests was enabled, Privoxy failed to get the request destination from the Host header and a memory allocation failed.

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Affected products

Privoxy/Privoxy3 versions
cpe:2.3:a:privoxy:privoxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:privoxy:privoxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <3.0.29
- (no CPE)range: <3.0.29
- (no CPE)range: Privoxy 3.0.29

Patches

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References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-16nvdThird Party Advisory
www.privoxy.org/3.0.29/user-manual/whatsnew.htmlnvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory

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