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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-bc7acd24c6
2016-02-01 02:27:04.521626
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Name        : privoxy
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 3.0.23
Release     : 3.fc22
URL         : http://www.privoxy.org/
Summary     : Privacy enhancing proxy
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

Patches for CVE-2016-1982,3
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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
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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 .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 22: privoxy Security Update

February 1, 2016
Patches for CVE-2016-1982,3

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 .

Severity
Name : privoxy
Product : Fedora 22
Version : 3.0.23
Release : 3.fc22
URL : http://www.privoxy.org/
Summary : Privacy enhancing proxy

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