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Fedora 21 lighttpd Update FEDORA-2015-12250 Moderate Log Injection

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Calendar Grey August 7, 2015
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New Lighttpd Release for Fedora 21 Fixes Log Injection Vulnerabilities and Boosts Performance
Latest upstream security release: http://www.lighttpd.net/2015/7/26/1.4.36/

Summary

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.

Update Information:

Latest upstream security release:

http://www.lighttpd.net/2015/7/26/1.4.36/

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Fedora web server lighttpd log injection

Change Log

* Mon Jul 27 2015 Jon Ciesla - 1.4.36-1 - 1.4.36 1246857, 1224910, 1224911. * Wed Jun 17 2015 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.4.35-5 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1224911 - CVE-2015-3200 lighttpd: log injection via malformed base64 string in Authentication header [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224911 [ 2 ] Bug #1224910 - CVE-2015-3200 lighttpd: log injection via malformed base64 string in Authentication header [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224910 [ 3 ] Bug #1246857 - lighttpd-1.4.36 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246857

Update Instructions

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 .

Name: lighttpd
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 1.4.36
Release: 1.fc21
URL: http://www.lighttpd.net/
Summary: Lightning fast webserver with light system requirements

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Fedora web server lighttpd log injection

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