[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: lighttpd-1.4.31-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-9040
2012-06-07 22:09:39
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Name        : lighttpd
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.4.31
Release     : 1.fc17
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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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jun  6 2012 Matthias Saou <matthias at saou.eu> 1.4.31-1
- Update to 1.4.31 (#828198).
* Tue Apr 17 2012 Jon Ciesla <limburgher at gmail.com> - 1.4.30-2
- service file patch per BZ 720210.
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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 program.  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 Project 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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