Fedora 22: privoxy Security Update
Summary
Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies,
controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and
can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application
for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
Privoxy is based on the Internet Junkbuster.
Update Information:
Patches for CVE-2016-1982,3
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1300975 - CVE-2016-1983 privoxy: invalid read via empty host header in client request [epel-7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300975 [ 2 ] Bug #1300974 - CVE-2016-1983 privoxy: invalid read via empty host header in client request [epel-6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300974 [ 3 ] Bug #1300969 - CVE-2016-1982 privoxy: invalid reads in case of corrupt chunk-encoded content [epel-7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300969 [ 4 ] Bug #1300968 - CVE-2016-1982 privoxy: invalid reads in case of corrupt chunk-encoded content [epel-6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300968 [ 5 ] Bug #1300973 - CVE-2016-1983 privoxy: invalid read via empty host header in client request [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300973 [ 6 ] Bug #1300967 - CVE-2016-1982 privoxy: invalid reads in case of corrupt chunk-encoded content [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300967
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update privoxy' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .