[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: lighttpd-1.4.26-2.el5

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2696
2010-04-29 15:57:08
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Name        : lighttpd
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 1.4.26
Release     : 2.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.

Available rpmbuild rebuild options :
--with : gamin webdavprops webdavlocks memcache
--without : ldap gdbm lua (cml)

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Update Information:

Update lighttpd to the latest version of the 1.4 branch, with the spawn-fcgi
program split out for the first time on EL. This fixes CVE-2010-0295 and also
includes a fix for upstream bug #2157 where SSL stopped working with RHEL 5.4.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #561340 - CVE-2010-0295 lighttpd: Remote DoS (excessive memory use) by handling specially-crafted HTTP request
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561340
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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/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL 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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