Long time no see.

It has been almost half a year since 1.4.18. 6months. Jan has been working on many interesting features for 1.5.¹ Currently he ports it to glib2.

But back to 1.4.19. Yes again the release date was nailed down by a few security bugs. cough Nevertheless we got a ton of other nice bugfixes. All praise our new lighttpd hero Stefan Bühler. Big thank you from my side. (darix)

• lighttpd_sa_2008_01.txt (patch: lighttpd-1.4.x_high_load_dos.patch)
• lighttpd_sa_2008_02.txt (patch: lighttpd-1.4.x_mod_cgi_disclosure.patch)
• lighttpd_sa_2008_03.txt (patch: lighttpd-1.4.x_mod_userdir_disclosure.patch)

Download

• lighttpd-1.4.19.tar.gz
  (sha1sum: 79e2d61dd9017c3c50c0fe98b2289cae5c1255ee
  md5sum: cede410e7adee3ea14206749190a8b5d)
• lighttpd-1.4.19.tar.bz2
  (sha1sum: fd4450e7faae55ebe0905114722995b0c57397cc
  md5sum: d787374e4e4aaa09d5cfa9ab9d23ad40)

Changes

• added support for If-Range: <date> (#1346)
• added support for matching $HTTP[“scheme”] in configs
• fixed initgroups() called after chroot (#1384)
• fixed case-sensitive check for Auth-Method (#1456)
• execute fcgi app without /bin/sh if used as argument to spawn-fcgi (#1428)
• fixed a bug that made /-prefixed extensions being handled also when matching the end of the uri in fcgi,scgi and proxy modules (#1489)
• print error if X-LIGHTTPD-send-file cannot be done; reset header Content-Length for send-file. Patches by Stefan Buehler
• prevent crash in certain php-fcgi configurations (#841)
• add IdleServers and Scoreboard directives in ?auto mode for mod_status (#1507)
• open log immediately after daemonizing, fixes SIGPIPEs on startup (#165)
• HTTPS env var should be “on” when using mod_extforward and the X-Forwarded-Proto header is set. (#1499)
• generate ETag and Last-Modified headers for mod_ssi based on newest modified include (#1491)
• support letterhomes in mod_userdir (#1473)
• support chained proxies in mod_extforward (#1528)
• fixed bogus “cgi died ?” if we kill the CGI process on shutdown
• fixed ECONNRESET handling in network-openssl
• fixed handling of EAGAIN in network-linux-sendfile (#657)
• reset conditional cache (#1164)
• create directories in mod_compress (was broken with alias/userdir) (#1027)
• fixed out of range access in fd array (#1562, #372) (CVE-2008-0983)
• mod_compress should check if the request is already handled, e.g. by fastcgi (#1565)
• remove broken workaround for buggy Opera version with ssl/chunked encoding (#285)
• generate etag/last-modified header for on-the-fly-compressed files (#1171)
• req-method OPTIONS: do not insert default response if request was denied, do not deny OPTIONS by default (#1324)
• fixed memory leak on windows (#1347)
• fixed building outside of the src dir (#1349)
• fixed including of stdint.h/inttypes.h in etag.c (#1413)
• do not add Accept-Ranges header if range-request is disabled (#1449)
• log the ip of failed auth tries in error.log (enhancement #1544)
• fixed RoundRobin in mod_proxy (#516)
• check for symlinks after successful pathinfo matching (#1574)
• fixed mod-proxy.t to run with a builddir outside of the src dir
• do not suppress content on “307 Temporary Redirect” (#1412)
• fixed Content-Length header if response body gets removed in connections.c (#1412, part 2)
• do not generate a “Content-Length: 0” header for HEAD requests, added test too
• remove compress cache file if compression or write failed (#1150)
• fixed body handling of status 300 requests
• spawn-fcgi: only try to connect to unix socket (not tcp) before spawning (#1575)
• fix sending source of cgi script instead of 500 error if fork fails (CVE-2008-1111)
• fix min-procs handling in mod_scgi.c, just set to max-procs (patch from #623)
• fix sending “408 - Timeout” instead of “410 - Gone” for timedout urls in mod_secdownload (#1440)
• workaround #1587: require userdir.path to be set to enable mod_userdir (empty string allowed) (CVE-2008-1270)
• make configure checks for –with-pcre, –with-zlib and –with-bzip2 failing if the headers aren’t found
• fixed handling of waitpid() == EINTR mod_ssi on solaris