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Fedora alert FEDORA-2007-2132 (lighttpd)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: lighttpd-1.4.18-1.fc7
Date:  Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:43:05 -0700
Message-ID:  <200709121643.l8CGgm9g001509@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-2132 2007-09-12 09:43:02.466839 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : lighttpd Product : Fedora 7 Version : 1.4.18 Release : 1.fc7 Summary : Lightning fast webserver with light system requirements Description : Secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server which has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) make it the perfect webserver-software for every server that is suffering load problems. Available rpmbuild rebuild options : --with : gamin webdavprops webdavlocks memcache --without : ldap gdbm lua (cml) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Lighttpd (1.4.17 and earlier) is prone to a header overflow when using the mod_fastcgi extension, this can lead to arbitrary code execution in the fastcgi application. This 1.4.18 update fixes the issue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Sep 10 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.18-1 - Update to 1.4.18. - Include newly installed lighttpd-angel ("angel" process meant to always run as root and restart lighttpd when it crashes, spawn processes on SIGHUP), but it's in testing stage and must be run with -D for now. * Wed Sep 5 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.17-1 - Update to 1.4.17. - Update defaultconf patch to match new example configuration. - Include patch to fix log file rotation with max-workers set (trac #902). - Add /var/run/lighttpd/ directory where to put fastcgi sockets. * Thu Aug 23 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.16-3 - Add /usr/bin/awk build requirement, used to get LIGHTTPD_VERSION_ID. * Wed Aug 22 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.16-2 - Rebuild to fix wrong execmem requirement on ppc32. * Thu Jul 26 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.16-1 - Update to 1.4.16 security fix release. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #284511 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=284511 [ 2 ] CVE-2007-4727 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-200... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages: 10a186bdb8c9a47f16c708d63d51f20efc5e4b42 lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.18-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm c60e37fa4b3a42d6da0116714955d401097b9340 lighttpd-1.4.18-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm bd673b2a76dc9d5f4cae227be3675e2f07bd6a8f lighttpd-mod_mysql_vhost-1.4.18-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm e84db23894b037196eec0c0b6abdb04e11925725 lighttpd-debuginfo-1.4.18-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm 890545f7dce17ccea1444fe2b33fcb6dadde9d1a lighttpd-debuginfo-1.4.18-1.fc7.i386.rpm 6e2e3d3e32c39d64556b920341b2ab25a57824ba lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.18-1.fc7.i386.rpm fc7b7a1449bb4e5dd7b6b6fda323b92bb602c25f lighttpd-mod_mysql_vhost-1.4.18-1.fc7.i386.rpm 5d470de19a7bee52b5238e26b0fd452b1c424fc8 lighttpd-1.4.18-1.fc7.i386.rpm 388073708e0ed17551cc01e7f34abaa66ab5f091 lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.18-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm af1f66dd36b1f0b3f7bb6121ea46347ff93ea8c7 lighttpd-debuginfo-1.4.18-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm 45ff6e353b45ebac9deb710a54f27314c94b8533 lighttpd-1.4.18-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm 807db4d7f0b2521d8f19f915d56ae4ae7b9f66dd lighttpd-mod_mysql_vhost-1.4.18-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm f9fbf72140a0dcb2a3a2a3f1f10f81ad094a1394 lighttpd-debuginfo-1.4.18-1.fc7.ppc.rpm c698a9db52d4dabaebe1013d54edb2ac5b608e07 lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.18-1.fc7.ppc.rpm 50089c0688928391bdf6d714b0c61b5cb692398c lighttpd-1.4.18-1.fc7.ppc.rpm f51a6530a0329cedaef42b49e9cac606142caa47 lighttpd-mod_mysql_vhost-1.4.18-1.fc7.ppc.rpm f8d88f6c1a04ff4044f1e379d2cf854c17290176 lighttpd-1.4.18-1.fc7.src.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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