Fedora 19 Update: gridsite-1.7.29-1.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-8637
2014-07-23 02:19:12
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Name        : gridsite
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 1.7.29
Release     : 1.fc19
URL         : http://www.gridsite.org
Summary     : Grid Security for the Web, Web platforms for Grids
Description :
GridSite was originally a web application developed for managing and formatting
the content of the http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/ website. Over the past years it
has grown into a set of extensions to the Apache web server and a toolkit for
Grid credentials, GACL access control lists and HTTP(S) protocol operations.

This package gridsite contains apache httpd modules for enabling
mod_gridsite.

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Update Information:

New upstream release addressing reported issues, fixed compatibility with httpd >= 2.4.x.

Changes:

* fix memory handling problems and memleaks
* fix handling of proxy certificates
* addressing a possible security issue in proxy delegation - valid characters in delegation IDs
* fixing problems with hard-coded maximum length of the certificate chain
* changing the default length of keys in proxies from 512 to 1024 bits
* fixed segfaults due to compatibility with httpd >= 2.4
Update to Upstream version 1.7.25, Fix a potential segfault bug on httpd >=24 servers.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jul 22 2014 František Dvořák <valtri at civ.zcu.cz< - 1.7.29-1
- New upstream 1.7.29
- Source URL now changed to github project
- Fix _httpd_mmn expansion in absence of httpd-devel (from 2.2.2-2)
- Owning icons dir
- Cleanups (EL5, noarch doc subpackage, buildroot macro, formatting)
- Update httpd 24 patch (lgging segv, chain depth length check)
* Sat Aug  3 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.25-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jun  4 2013 Adrien Devresse <adevress at cern.ch> - 1.7.25-2
- Upstream to 1.7.25
 - Fix httpd 24 patch, remove a risk of segfault on >=EL6
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1015848 - [abrt] httpd-2.4.6-2.fc19: create_gridsite_srv_config: Process /usr/sbin/httpd was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015848
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update gridsite' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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