CVE-2021-44541

medium

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

A vulnerability was found in Privoxy which was fixed in process_encrypted_request_headers() by freeing header memory when failing to get the request destination.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-44541

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`3.0.33-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`3.0.32-2+deb11u1`
debian	forky	fixed	`3.0.33-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`3.0.33-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`3.0.33-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-44541

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.