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openSUSE Security Update : Privoxy (openSUSE-2016-132)

high Nessus Plugin ID 88553

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update to Privoxy 3.0.24 fixes two minor security issues.

The vulnerabilities should not be exploitable in the binary as compiled in openSUSE.

 - CVE-2016-1982: Corrupt chunk-encoded content could cause an invalid read (boo#963151)

 - CVE-2016-1983: Empty Host headers in client requests could result in invalid reads (boo#963152)

This update also contains general bug fixes and improvements as well as white and blacklist updates.

Solution

Update the affected Privoxy packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=963151

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=963152

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 88553

File Name: openSUSE-2016-132.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/3/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:privoxy-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:privoxy, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:privoxy-debugsource

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1982, CVE-2016-1983