Amazon Linux AMI: privoxy (ALAS-2016-663) update available for privoxy to fix denial of service vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-1982, CVE-2016-1983
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 38 |
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![]() | Debian Security Advisory DSA 3460-1 (privoxy - security update) | 5 Feb 201600:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0055) | 11 Feb 201600:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3460-1) | 5 Feb 201600:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-663) | 11 Mar 201600:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Fedora Update for privoxy FEDORA-2016-29995 | 5 Feb 201600:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-398-1) | 8 Mar 202300:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DLA 398-1] privoxy security update | 23 Jan 201622:30 | – | debian |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 3460-1] privoxy security update | 30 Jan 201608:41 | – | debian |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 3460-1] privoxy security update | 30 Jan 201608:41 | – | debian |
![]() | [SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: privoxy-3.0.23-3.fc23 | 1 Feb 201602:26 | – | fedora |
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2016-663.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(89844);
script_version("2.3");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/04/18 15:09:35");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1982", "CVE-2016-1983");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2016-663");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : privoxy (ALAS-2016-663)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"The remove_chunked_transfer_coding function allows remote attackers to
cause a denial of service (invalid read and crash) via crafted
chunk-encoded content. (CVE-2016-1982)
The client_host function in parsers.c allows remote attackers to cause
a denial of service (invalid read and crash) via an empty HTTP Host
header. (CVE-2016-1983)"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-663.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Run 'yum update privoxy' to update your system."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:privoxy");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:privoxy-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/03/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/03/11");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "A")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"privoxy-3.0.23-2.7.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"privoxy-debuginfo-3.0.23-2.7.amzn1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "privoxy / privoxy-debuginfo");
}
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