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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-16033 (haproxy)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: haproxy-1.4.22-1.fc17
Date:  Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:56:44 +0000
Message-ID:  <20121023015644.05A4320979@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-16033 2012-10-12 23:39:57 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : haproxy Product : Fedora 17 Version : 1.4.22 Release : 1.fc17 URL : http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ Summary : HA-Proxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy for high availability environments Description : HA-Proxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy which is particularly suited for high availability environments. Indeed, it can: - route HTTP requests depending on statically assigned cookies - spread the load among several servers while assuring server persistence through the use of HTTP cookies - switch to backup servers in the event a main one fails - accept connections to special ports dedicated to service monitoring - stop accepting connections without breaking existing ones - add/modify/delete HTTP headers both ways - block requests matching a particular pattern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Upstream security update -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Oct 12 2012 Robin Lee <cheeselee@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4.22-1 - Update to 1.4.22 (CVE-2012-2942, #824544, #824545) - Use linux2628 build target - No separate x86_64 build target for halog - halog build honors rpmbuild optflags - Specfile cleanup -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #824542 - CVE-2012-2942 haproxy: trash buffer overflow flaw can lead to arbitrary code execution https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824542 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update haproxy' 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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