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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:0379-1 Moderate: Fixed Privoxy Memory Usage Bug

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Calendar Grey February 8, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
There is a fresh patch for privoxy addressing two security vulnerabilities in openSUSE categorized with moderate risk. Make sure to implement it.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for privoxy fixes the following issues:

- Update to version 3.0.31:

- Security/Reliability (boo#1181650)

- Prevent an assertion from getting triggered by a crafted CGI

request. Commit 5bba5b89193fa. OVE-20210130-0001. CVE-2021-20217

Reported by: Joshua Rogers (Opera)

- Fixed a memory leak when decompression fails "unexpectedly". Commit

f431d61740cc0. OVE-20210128-0001. CVE-2021-20216

- Bug fixes:

- Fixed detection of insufficient data for decompression. Previously

Privoxy could try to decompress a partly uninitialized buffer.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update security fix moderate severity memory leak openSUSE privoxy

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-2021-265=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

privoxy-3.0.31-lp152.3.6.1

privoxy-debuginfo-3.0.31-lp152.3.6.1

privoxy-debugsource-3.0.31-lp152.3.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

privoxy-doc-3.0.31-lp152.3.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20216.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20217.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181650

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0265-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory update security fix moderate severity memory leak openSUSE privoxy

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