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Fedora 21: FEDORA-2015-6392 Moderate Cherokee Authentication Bypass

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Cherokee web server patch addresses critical security loophole associated with LDAP authentication. It is advised to enhance security on Fedora 21 setups.
Resolves bz 1114461 - CVE-2014-4668 cherokee: authentication bypass when LDAP server allows unauthenticated binds

Summary

Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports

the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL

encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding,

Apache compatible log files, and much more.

Update Information:

Resolves bz 1114461 - CVE-2014-4668 cherokee: authentication bypass when LDAP server allows unauthenticated binds

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Change Log

* Wed Apr 15 2015 Pavel Lisý - 1.2.103-6 - Resolves bz 1114461 - CVE-2014-4668 cherokee: authentication bypass when LDAP server allows unauthenticated binds - Resolves bz 1094901 - cherokee: script and/or trigger should not directly enable systemd units - Resolves bz 959170 - cherokee-worker and cherokee-admin want to use execstack (EL5)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1114461 - CVE-2014-4668 cherokee: authentication bypass when LDAP server allows unauthenticated binds [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114461 [ 2 ] Bug #1094901 - cherokee: script and/or trigger should not directly enable systemd units https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094901

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update cherokee' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: cherokee
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 1.2.103
Release: 6.fc21
URL: http://cherokee-project.com/
Summary: Flexible and Fast Webserver

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