-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2013-0632 2013-03-12 16:45:34 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : privoxy Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 3.0.21 Release : 1.el6 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
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.
References: [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2503 [2] http://blog.c22.cc/2013/03/11/privoxy-proxy-authentication-credential-exposu... [3] http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/ChangeLog?revision=1... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #920645 - CVE-2013-2503 privoxy: Proxy-Authentication response spoofing [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=920645 [ 2 ] Bug #920647 - CVE-2013-2503 privoxy: Proxy-Authentication response spoofing [epel-6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=920647 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update privoxy' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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