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Fedora alert FEDORA-2010-7643 (lighttpd)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: lighttpd-1.4.26-2.fc12
Date:  Wed, 12 May 2010 18:02:08 +0000
Message-ID:  <20100512180208.1488A11135A@bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-7643 2010-04-30 01:02:41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : lighttpd Product : Fedora 12 Version : 1.4.26 Release : 2.fc12 URL : http://www.lighttpd.net/ 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: Update lighttpd to the latest version of the 1.4 branch, with the spawn-fcgi program split out for the first time on EL. This fixes CVE-2010-0295 and also includes a fix for upstream bug #2157 where SSL stopped working with RHEL 5.4. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Apr 16 2010 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.26-2 - Update to 1.4.26. - Update the geoip patch. - Remove no longer provided ChangeLog from %doc. - Include patch to fix upstream SSL related bug #2157. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #561340 - CVE-2010-0295 lighttpd: Remote DoS (excessive memory use) by handling specially-crafted HTTP request https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561340 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update lighttpd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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