PT-2016-4941 · Privoxy+1 · Privoxy+1

Fabian Keil · Published 2016-01-27 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-1982

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.24

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an invalid read and crash, via crafted chunk-encoded content. This is due to a problem in the remove chunked transfer coding function in filters.c.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.0.24, update to version 3.0.24 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to chunk-encoded content until a patch is available.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1422

CVE-2016-1982

DLA-398-1

DSA-3460-1

MGASA-2016-0055

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10494-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Privoxy

References · 26

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1982 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1982 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1982 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1982 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10494-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176492.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3460 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3460-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1982 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1982 · Security Note
• http://privoxy.org/announce.txt · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0055.html · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1982 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0055 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176475.html · Vendor Advisory