[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: lighttpd-1.4.19-4.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-4119
2008-05-17 19:21:43
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Name        : lighttpd
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 1.4.19
Release     : 4.fc9
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:

This update fixes a bug where a user could kill another user's SSL connection by
killing his own, because the SSL error queue wasn't cleared properly.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Apr 24 2008 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.19-4
- Merge in second changest from upstream fix for upstream bug #285.
* Thu Mar 27 2008 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 1.4.19-3
- Include sslshutdown patch, upstream fix to upstream bug #285 (#439066).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #439066 - CVE-2008-1531 lighttpd closes unrelated SSL connections on SSL error
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439066
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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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