[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: lighttpd-1.4.26-2.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-7636
2010-04-30 01:02:16
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Name        : lighttpd
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.4.26
Release     : 2.fc11
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.

Available rpmbuild rebuild options :
--with : gamin webdavprops webdavlocks memcache
--without : ldap gdbm lua (cml)

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Update Information:

Update lighttpd to the latest version of the 1.4 branch, with the spawn-fcgi
program split out for the first time on EL. This fixes CVE-2010-0295 and also
includes a fix for upstream bug #2157 where SSL stopped working with RHEL 5.4.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Apr 16 2010 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.26-2
- Update to 1.4.26.
- Update the geoip patch.
- Remove no longer provided ChangeLog from %doc.
- Include patch to fix upstream SSL related bug #2157.
* Thu Sep  3 2009 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.23-1
- Update to 1.4.23.
- Update defaultconf and mod_geoip patches.
- Remove no longer shipped spawn-fcgi, it's a separate source package now.
- Remove unused patch to the init script.
* Fri Aug 21 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> - 1.4.22-5
- rebuilt with new openssl
* Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.4.22-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #561340 - CVE-2010-0295 lighttpd: Remote DoS (excessive memory use) by handling specially-crafted HTTP request
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561340
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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/.

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