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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2012-6072
2012-06-07 17:25:53
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Name : lighttpd
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 1.4.31
Release : 1.el5
URL :
http://www.lighttpd.net/
Summary : Lightning fast webserver with light system requirements
Description :
Secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server which has been optimized
for high-performance environments. It has a very low memory footprint compared
to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set
(FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) make
it the perfect webserver-software for every server that is suffering load
problems.
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Update Information:
This update fixes CVE-2011-4362 by updating to the latest release. It also fixes problems
that had been reported with previous releases, such as ssl-related crashes on startup.
This update fixes some minor SSL related problems, as well as a connection stall bug.
This update fixes some minor SSL related problems, as well as a connection stall bug.
This update fixes some minor SSL related problems, as well as a connection stall bug.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #758624 - CVE-2011-4362 lighttpd: Out of bounds read due to a signedness error
(DoS, crash)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758624
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update lighttpd' 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 EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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