1.4.18 - speeding up a bit

September 09, 2007

“Release early, release often.”

So here we are again. The previous release is already 12 days old! It already got grey hair.

And again we have a small security bug! It seems, if you get the more popular, more people are looking at your code. This time Mattias Bengtsson and Philip Olausson from secweb.se took a look at the code. They found a small bug that could lead to remote code execution in fastcgi applications. (We wont mention names here.)

Download

  • lighttpd-1.4.18.tar.gz
    (sha1sum: 30eb24cdfcfeadf10fa16f187330bdc5deb25ed2
    md5sum: 5db3204d57436a032f899ff9dbce793f)
  • lighttpd-1.4.18.tar.bz2
    (sha1sum: a53a8f8ae8d42d036f0b5129764b822e943cc778
    md5sum: 26f98dddf9d8c0775221b800986003ee)

Changes

  • fixed compile error on IRIX 6.5.x on prctl() (#1333)
  • fixed forwarding a SIGINT and SIGHUP when using max-workers (#902)
  • fixed FastCGI header overrun in mod_fastcgi (reported by mattias@secweb.se)
  • fixed hanging redirects with keep-alive due to missing “Content-Length: 0” headers
  • fixed crashing when using undefined environment variables in the config
  • fixed compilation of mod_mysql_vhost on irix (#1341)

For all the packagers: if you wonder what happened to lighttpd 2007-SA:11 and lighttpd 2007-SA:10, they will be released in the next days.