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openSUSE 15.2: 2021:0006-1 Moderate: Privoxy Memory Leak Issues

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Calendar Grey January 1, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Fedora Security Patch implements essential updates for clamav, resolving buffer overflow issues and enhancing overall software stability.
An update that contains security fixes can now be installed

Description

This update for privoxy fixes the following issues:

privoxy was updated to 3.0.29:

* Fixed memory leaks when a response is buffered and the buffer limit is

reached or Privoxy is running out of memory. OVE-20201118-0001

* Fixed a memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when no action files

are configured OVE-20201118-0002

* Fixed a memory leak in the show-status CGI handler when no filter files

are configured OVE-20201118-0003

* Fixes a memory leak when client tags are active OVE-20201118-0004

* Fixed a memory leak if multiple filters are executed and the last one is

skipped due to a pcre error OVE-20201118-0005

* Prevent an unlikely 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. OVE-20201118-0006

* Fixed memory leaks in the client-tags CGI handler when client tags...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-6=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-6=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

privoxy-doc-3.0.29-lp152.3.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

privoxy-3.0.29-lp152.3.3.1

privoxy-debuginfo-3.0.29-lp152.3.3.1

privoxy-debugsource-3.0.29-lp152.3.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

privoxy-doc-3.0.29-lp151.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

privoxy-3.0.29-lp151.2.3.1

privoxy-debuginfo-3.0.29-lp151.2.3.1

privoxy-debugsource-3.0.29-lp151.2.3.1

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1157449

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0006-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 openSUSE Leap 15.1 .

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