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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2016-6f20fac744 Critical: Lighttpd Crash Improvement

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential Fedora 23 patch for lighttpd resolves stability concerns and enhances efficiency. Discover how to apply the update today.
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/

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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 23
Version: 1.4.39
Release: 1.fc23
URL: http://www.lighttpd.net/
Summary: Lightning fast webserver with light system requirements

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora bugfix performance lighttpd crash improvement

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