[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: libhtp-0.5.16-1.fc21

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-16880
2014-12-13 08:34:10
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Name        : libhtp
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 0.5.16
Release     : 1.fc21
URL         : http://www.libhtp.org
Summary     : Security-aware parser for the HTTP protocol and the related bits and pieces
Description :
LibHTP is a security-aware parser for the HTTP protocol and the related bits
and pieces. The goals of the project, in the order of importance, are as
follows:
1. Completeness of coverage;
2. Permissive parsing;
3. Awareness of evasion techniques;
4. Performance;

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Update Information:

### 0.5.16 (11 December 2014)

* Per personality requestline leading whitespace handling [Victor Julien]
* Improve request line parsing with leading spaces [Victor Julien]
* Harden decompress code against memory stress [Victor Julien]

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ChangeLog:

* Fri Dec 12 2014 Mathieu Bridon <bochecha at daitauha.fr> - 0.5.16-1
- Update to 0.5.16
- Among other things, this fixes a security issue
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173605
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1173605 - libhtp: denial of service with specific packets
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173605
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update libhtp' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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