Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-1645-1] New lighttpd packages fix various problems

2008-10-06 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 20:40:36 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:

>  From reading the changelog these issues have all three been addressed
> in the 1.4.19-5 upload which was done a week ago already. Was this
> missed, or are the patches therein considered incomplete?

  This was missed.

Steve
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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-1645-1] New lighttpd packages fix various problems

2008-10-06 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-06 19:29:51 CEST]:
> CVE-2008-4298
> A memory leak in the http_request_parse function could be used by
> remote attackers to cause lighttpd to consume memory, and cause a
> denial of service attack.
> 
> CVE-2008-4359
> Inconsistent handling of URL patterns could lead to the disclosure
> of resources a server administrator did not anticipate when using
> rewritten URLs.
> 
> CVE-2008-4360
> Upon file systems which don't handle case-insensitive paths differently
> it might be possible that unanticipated resources could be made available
> by mod_userdir.
> 
> For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version
> 1.4.13-4etch11.
> 
> For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed shortly.

 From reading the changelog these issues have all three been addressed
in the 1.4.19-5 upload which was done a week ago already. Was this
missed, or are the patches therein considered incomplete?

 Thanks,
Rhonda


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