Hi, may I please direct some provenpackager's attention to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878915 -- lighttpd: Denial
of Service via malformed Connection headers (CVE-2012-5533)
The bug was filed in November 2012, or approximately nine months ago.
EPEL still ships a vulnerable version 1.4.31 for both EL5 and EL6. I
think it'd be high time to release a fixed version, especially as
exploiting the vulnerability is rather trivial:
echo -ne "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: victim.com\r\nConnection:
TE,,Keep-Alive\r\n\r\n" | nc
victim.com 80
Everything that's needed is included in the bug report (as far as I can
tell). It'd only need someone to package the new version and push it
through EPEL's buildsystem.