[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 4 Update: spawn-fcgi-1.6.2-1.el4.1

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2010-2694
2010-04-29 15:57:01
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Name        : spawn-fcgi
Product     : Fedora EPEL 4
Version     : 1.6.2
Release     : 1.el4.1
URL         : http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/spawn-fcgi/
Summary     : Simple program for spawning FastCGI processes
Description :
This package contains the spawn-fcgi program used for spawning FastCGI
processes, which can be local or remote.

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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 spawn-fcgi' 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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