[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: polipo-1.0.4.1-6.fc16
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-0840
2012-01-23 21:25:33
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Name : polipo
Product : Fedora 16
Version : 1.0.4.1
Release : 6.fc16
URL : http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/
Summary : Lightweight caching web proxy
Description :
Polipo is a lightweight caching web proxy that was designed as a personal
cache. It is able to cache incomplete objects and will complete them using
range requests. It will use HTTP/1.1 pipelining if supported by the remote
server.
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Update Information:
- add daily cache cleanup
- fix missing creation of /var/run directory (bz #755198)
- make sure log directory context is set correctly (bz #741779)
- fix denial of service vulnerability CVE-2011-3596 (bz #742897)
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ChangeLog:
* Sun Jan 22 2012 Bernard Johnson <bjohnson(a)symetrix.com> - 1.0.4.1-6
- add daily cache cleanup
- fix missing creation of /var/run directory (bz #755198)
- make sure log directory context is set correctly (bz #741779)
- fix denial of service vulnerability CVE-2011-3596 (bz #742897)
* Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> -
1.0.4.1-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #755198 - polipo do not work after installation
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755198
[ 2 ] Bug #741779 - polipo installs /var/log/polipo but does not own it
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741779
[ 3 ] Bug #742897 - CVE-2011-3596 polipo: Assertion failure by processing certain HTTP
POST / PUT requests [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742897
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update polipo' 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
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