CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-1983
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-01-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The client_host function in parsers.c in Privoxy before 3.0.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read and crash) via an empty HTTP Host header.
Affected configurations
• privoxy privoxy (<= 3.0.23)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/parsers.c?r1=1.302&r2=1.303 ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176475.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176492.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3460 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/21/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/22/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.privoxy.org/announce.txt Vendor Advisory
- http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/parsers.c?r1=1.302&r2=1.303 ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176475.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176492.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3460 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/21/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/22/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.privoxy.org/announce.txt Vendor Advisory