[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: mod_fcgid-2.3.6-1.fc12
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Tue Nov 16 23:15:03 UTC 2010
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-17474
2010-11-08 21:38:13
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Name : mod_fcgid
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 2.3.6
Release : 1.fc12
URL : http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/
Summary : FastCGI interface module for Apache 2
Description :
mod_fcgid is a binary-compatible alternative to the Apache module mod_fastcgi.
mod_fcgid has a new process management strategy, which concentrates on reducing
the number of fastcgi servers, and kicking out corrupt fastcgi servers as soon
as possible.
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Update Information:
This update to the current upstream maintenance release includes a fix for a possible stack buffer overwrite (CVE-2010-3872).
It also changes the default value of FcgidMaxRequestLen from 1GB to 128K; administrators should change this to an appropriate value based on site requirements.
Other changes are described in CHANGES-FCGID document included in the package.
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Nov 4 2010 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 2.3.6-1
- Update to 2.3.6 (see CHANGES-FCGID for full details)
- Fix possible stack buffer overwrite (CVE-2010-3872)
- Change the default for FcgidMaxRequestLen from 1GB to 128K; administrators
should change this to an appropriate value based on site requirements
- Correct a problem that resulted in FcgidMaxProcesses being ignored in some
situations
- Return 500 instead of segfaulting when the application returns no output
- Don't include SELinux policy for RHEL-5 builds since RHEL >= 5.5 includes it
- Explicitly require /bin/sed for fixconf script
* Tue Jun 8 2010 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 2.3.5-2
- SELinux policy module not needed for RHEL-6 onwards
* Wed Jan 27 2010 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 2.3.5-1
- Update to 2.3.5 (see CHANGES-FCGID for details)
- Drop upstream svn patch
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update mod_fcgid' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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