-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2012-6072 2012-06-07 17:25:53 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : lighttpd Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 1.4.31 Release : 1.el5 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
This update fixes CVE-2011-4362 by updating to the latest release. It also fixes problems that had been reported with previous releases, such as ssl-related crashes on startup. This update fixes some minor SSL related problems, as well as a connection stall bug. This update fixes some minor SSL related problems, as well as a connection stall bug. This update fixes some minor SSL related problems, as well as a connection stall bug. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #758624 - CVE-2011-4362 lighttpd: Out of bounds read due to a signedness error (DoS, crash) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758624 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. 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/.
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