[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: libmicrohttpd-0.9.33-1.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-0946
2014-01-16 05:26:37
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Name        : libmicrohttpd
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 0.9.33
Release     : 1.fc19
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/
Summary     : Lightweight library for embedding a webserver in applications
Description :
GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that is supposed to make it
easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application.
Key features that distinguish libmicrohttpd from other projects are:

* C library: fast and small
* API is simple, expressive and fully reentrant
* Implementation is http 1.1 compliant
* HTTP server can listen on multiple ports
* Support for IPv6
* Support for incremental processing of POST data
* Creates binary of only 25k (for now)
* Three different threading models

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Update Information:

Update to latest upstream release 0.9.33 due to security issues
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan 15 2014 Václav Pavlín <vpavlin at redhat.com> - 0.9.33-1
- Update to latest upstream release 0.9.33 due to security
  issues (#1039391, #1039391)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1039391 - libmicrohttpd: stack overflow in MHD_digest_auth_check() [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039391
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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