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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-3343
2008-04-29 20:23:42
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Name : lighttpd
Product : Fedora 7
Version : 1.4.19
Release : 4.fc7
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)
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Update Information:
This update fixes a bug where a user could kill another user's SSL connection by
killing his own, because the SSL error queue wasn't cleared properly.
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Apr 24 2008 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.19-4
- Merge in second changest from upstream fix for upstream bug #285.
* Thu Mar 27 2008 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.19-3
- Include sslshutdown patch, upstream fix to upstream bug #285 (#439066).
* Sat Mar 22 2008 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.19-2
- Provide "webserver" (#437884).
* Wed Mar 12 2008 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.19-1
- Update to 1.4.19, which includes all previous security fixes + bugfixes.
* Tue Mar 4 2008 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.18-6
- Include patch for CVE-2008-0983 (crash when low on file descriptors).
- Include patch for CVE-2008-1111 (cgi source disclosure).
* Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)fedoraproject.org>
- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3
* Wed Dec 5 2007 Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject dot org>
- Rebuild for deps
* Wed Oct 31 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.18-3
- Update mod_geoip source to fix segfault upon stopping lighttpd.
* Mon Oct 22 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.18-2
- Include mod_geoip additional source, make it an optional sub-package.
- Reorder sub-packages alphabetically in spec file.
- Make sub-packages require exact release, just in case.
- Change default webroot back from /srv to /var.
* Mon Sep 10 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.18-1
- Update to 1.4.18.
- Include newly installed lighttpd-angel ("angel" process meant to always run
as root and restart lighttpd when it crashes, spawn processes on SIGHUP), but
it's in testing stage and must be run with -D for now.
* Wed Sep 5 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.17-1
- Update to 1.4.17.
- Update defaultconf patch to match new example configuration.
- Include patch to fix log file rotation with max-workers set (trac #902).
- Add /var/run/lighttpd/ directory where to put fastcgi sockets.
* Thu Aug 23 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.16-3
- Add /usr/bin/awk build requirement, used to get LIGHTTPD_VERSION_ID.
* Wed Aug 22 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.16-2
- Rebuild to fix wrong execmem requirement on ppc32.
* Thu Jul 26 2007 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.16-1
- Update to 1.4.16 security fix release.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #439066 - CVE-2008-1531 lighttpd closes unrelated SSL connections on SSL
error
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439066
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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
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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