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Debian Jessie: DSA-4042-1 Severe Privoxy Memory Corruption

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Calendar Grey January 20, 2015
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An upgrade for Privoxy addressing potential use-after-free flaws in Debian wheezy has been released.
Multiple use-after-frees were discovered in Privoxy, a privacy-enhancing HTTP proxy
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Summary

Multiple use-after-frees were discovered in Privoxy, a privacy-enhancing
HTTP proxy.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.19-2+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem will be
fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.21-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your privoxy packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: privoxy
CVE ID: CVE-2015-1031

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