CVE-2021-36773

NameCVE-2021-36773
DescriptionuBlock Origin before 1.36.2 and nMatrix before 4.4.9 support an arbitrary depth of parameter nesting for strict blocking, which allows crafted web sites to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion that can trigger memory consumption and a loss of all blocking functionality).
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3062-1
Debian Bugs991344, 991386

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ublock-origin (PTS)bullseye1.42.0+dfsg-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm1.46.0+dfsg-1fixed
sid, trixie1.60.0+dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ublock-originsourcestretch1.42.0+dfsg-1~deb9u1DLA-3062-1
ublock-originsourcebuster1.37.0+dfsg-1~deb10u1
ublock-originsourcebullseye1.37.0+dfsg-1~deb11u1
ublock-originsource(unstable)1.37.0+dfsg-1991386
umatrixsource(unstable)(unfixed)991344

Notes

[buster] - umatrix <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/vtriolet/writings/blob/main/posts/2021/ublock_origin_and_umatrix_denial_of_service.adoc

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