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Fedora 22: 2016-f59b94c349 Moderate: Lighttpd Crash Fix

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Investigate the most recent security patch released for the lighttpd webserver on Fedora 22, aiming for enhanced security measures and peak performance.
Bugfix release: http://www.lighttpd.net/2016/1/2/1.4.39/

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:

Bugfix release: http://www.lighttpd.net/2016/1/2/1.4.39/

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora system performance webserver bugfix release Lighttpd

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1295149 - lighttpd-1.4.39 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1295149 [ 2 ] Bug #1296487 - lighttpd: crash after use-after-free [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296487

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 .

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Name: lighttpd
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 1.4.39
Release: 1.fc22
URL: http://www.lighttpd.net/
Summary: Lightning fast webserver with light system requirements

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora system performance webserver bugfix release Lighttpd

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