CVE-2015-1030

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-01-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Memory leak in the rfc2553_connect_to function in jbsocket.c in Privoxy before 3.0.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of requests that are rejected because the socket limit is reached.

Affected products

privoxy: through 3.0.21

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/62123
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/11/1
http://www.privoxy.org/announce.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/62123
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/11/1
http://www.privoxy.org/announce.txt

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