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From: Anssi Johansson
Date: Saturday, August 24, 2013
Subject: EPEL Lighttpd vulnerability still unfixed after 9 months
To: epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Hi, may I please direct some provenpackager's attention to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878915 -- lighttpd: Denial of Service via malformed Connection headers (CVE-2012-5533)

The bug was filed in November 2012, or approximately nine months ago. EPEL still ships a vulnerable version 1.4.31 for both EL5 and EL6. I think it'd be high time to release a fixed version, especially as exploiting the vulnerability is rather trivial:

echo -ne "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: victim.com\r\nConnection: TE,,Keep-Alive\r\n\r\n" | nc victim.com 80

Everything that's needed is included in the bug report (as far as I can tell). It'd only need someone to package the new version and push it through EPEL's buildsystem.
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