[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: polipo-1.0.4.1-6.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-0849
2012-01-23 21:26:07
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Name        : polipo
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.0.4.1
Release     : 6.fc15
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 at 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 at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.4.1-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Sep 26 2011 Bernard Johnson <bjohnson at symetrix.com> - 1.0.4.1-4
- take file / dir creation & testing out of initscript (bz #708814)
- remove log file / dir creation in spec too
- NetworkManager integration should use restart rather than reload (bz #699677)
- add support for tmpfiles.d (bz #656669)
- add support for systemd starting in F17
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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/.

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