[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: varnish-4.0.3-3.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-4079
2015-03-18 05:57:45
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Name        : varnish
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 4.0.3
Release     : 3.fc21
URL         : http://www.varnish-cache.org/
Summary     : High-performance HTTP accelerator
Description :
This is Varnish Cache, a high-performance HTTP accelerator.
Documentation wiki and additional information about Varnish is
available on the following web site: http://www.varnish-cache.org/

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Update Information:

This update fixes a bug trigged by a bogus content-length header. Under special circumstances, it could crash a varnishd subthread.


New upstream release. A bugfix release.

Highlights from the changelog: 
* 26 reported bugs fixed.
* Replaced objects are now expired immediately, instead of kept around until expiry.
* Memory usage on chunked backend responses is lower

Fore a detailed list of changes, please see the project's announcement at https://www.varnish-cache.org/content/varnish-cache-403
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Mar 13 2015 Ingvar Hagelund <ingvar at redpill-linpro.com> 4.0.3-3
- Added a patch fixing a crash on bogus content-length header,
  closing #1200034
* Fri Mar  6 2015 Ingvar Hagelund <ingvar at redpill-linpro.com> 4.0.3-2
- Added selinux module for varnish4 on el6
* Thu Mar  5 2015 Ingvar Hagelund <ingvar at redpill-linpro.com> 4.0.3-1
- New upstream release
- Removed systemd patch included upstream
- Rebased trivial Werr-patch for varnish-4.0.3
- Added patch to build on el5
* Tue Nov 25 2014 Ingvar Hagelund <ingvar at redpill-linpro.com> 4.0.2-1
- New upstream release
- Rebased sphinx makefile patch
- Added systemd services patch from Federico Schwindt
* Mon Aug 18 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 4.0.1-2.1
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1200034 - varnish: heap-based buffer overflow in backend server HTTP response parsing
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1200034
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update varnish' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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