Fedora 17 : privoxy-3.0.21-1.fc17 (2013-3756)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65649

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2503 to the following vulnerability :

Privoxy before 3.0.21 does not properly handle Proxy-Authenticate and Proxy-Authorization headers in the client-server data stream, which makes it easier for remote HTTP servers to spoof the intended proxy service via a 407 (aka Proxy Authentication Required) HTTP status code.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected privoxy package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65649

File Name: fedora_2013-3756.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 3/22/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:privoxy

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2503

BID: 58425

FEDORA: 2013-3756

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