A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.29. Memory leaks when a response is buffered and the buffer limit is reached or Privoxy is running out of memory can lead to a system crash.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35502
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1928749
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-16
• https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.29/user-manual/whatsnew.html