1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-4886-1

USN-4886-1: Privoxy vulnerabilities

Publication date

22 March 2021

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Privoxy.

Releases

Packages

  • privoxy - Privacy enhancing HTTP Proxy

Details

It was discovered that Privoxy incorrectly handled CGI requests. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive
information. (CVE-2020-35502, CVE-2021-20209, CVE-2021-20210,
CVE-2021-20213, CVE-2021-20215, CVE-2021-20216, CVE-2021-20217,
CVE-2021-20272, CVE-2021-20273, CVE-2021-20275)

It was discovered that Privoxy incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service or obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2021-20212,

It was discovered that Privoxy incorrectly handled CGI requests. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive
information. (CVE-2020-35502, CVE-2021-20209, CVE-2021-20210,
CVE-2021-20213, CVE-2021-20215, CVE-2021-20216, CVE-2021-20217,
CVE-2021-20272, CVE-2021-20273, CVE-2021-20275)

It was discovered that Privoxy incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service or obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2021-20212, CVE-2021-20276)

It was discovered that Privoxy incorrectly handled client tags. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause Privoxy to consume resources, resulting
in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2021-20211)

It was discovered that Privoxy incorrectly handled client tags. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause Privoxy to consume resources, resulting
in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2021-20214)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
20.10 groovy privoxy –  3.0.28-3ubuntu0.1
20.04 focal privoxy –  3.0.28-2ubuntu0.1
18.04 bionic privoxy –  3.0.26-5ubuntu0.1
16.04 xenial privoxy –  3.0.24-1ubuntu0.1
14.04 trusty privoxy –  3.0.21-7+deb8u1ubuntu0.1~esm1  

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