Fedora 23: Important Privoxy Update Addresses Critical Invalid Reads
fedora
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
Topics Covered
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...
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 .
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Name: privoxy
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 3.0.23
Release: 3.fc23
Summary: Privacy enhancing proxy
Topics Covered
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