[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: polipo-1.0.4.1-6.fc16

updates at fedoraproject.org updates at fedoraproject.org
Wed Feb 1 19:30:27 UTC 2012


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-0840
2012-01-23 21:25:33
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


More information about the package-announce mailing list