Release Info¶

• Version: 1.4.20
• Previous version: 1.4.19
• Branch: 1.4
• Status: Stable
• Release Purpose: security and bug fixes
• Release manager: darix
• Released date: 2008-09-30

"Otherwise the terrorists win"

After two prereleases and a lot of bugfixing, we are proud to announce a new release of the 1.4 branch: 1.4.20 is finally out.
We would like to thank everybody who tested the prereleases and/or reported bugs in our ticket system.

Please pay special attention to the security announcements:

• Lighttpd SA 2008:04 (patch: lighttpd-1.4.19_fix_ssl_dos.patch)
• Lighttpd SA 2008:05 (patch: lighttpd-1.4.x_rewrite_redirect_decode_url.patch)
• Lighttpd SA 2008:06 (patch: lighttpd-1.4.x_userdir_lowercase.patch)
• Lighttpd SA 2008:07 (patch: lighttpd-1.4.x_request_header_memleak.patch)

Changes from 1.4.19¶

• Fix mod_compress to compile with old gcc version (#1592)
• Fix mod_extforward to compile with old gcc version (#1591)
• Update documentation for #1587
• Fix #285 again: read error after SSL_shutdown (thx marton.illes@balabit.com) and clear the error queue before some other calls (CVE-2008-1531)
• Fix mod_magnet: enable "request.method" and "request.protocol" in lighty.env (#1308)
• Fix segfault for appending matched parts if there was no regex matching (just give empty strings) (#1601)
• Use data_response_init in mod_fastcgi x-sendfile handling for response.headers, fix a small "memleak" (#1628)
• Don't send empty Server headers (#1620)
• Fix conditional interpretation of core options
• Enable escaping of % and $ in redirect/rewrite; only two cases changed their behaviour: "%%" => "%", "$$" => "$"
• Fix accesslog port (should be port from the connection, not the "server.port") (#1618)
• Fix mod_fastcgi prefix matching: match the prefix always against url, not the absolute filepath (regardless of check-local)
• Overwrite Content-Type header in mod_dirlisting instead of inserting (#1614), patch by Henrik Holst
• Handle EINTR in mod_cgi during write() (#1640)
• Allow all http status codes by default; disable body only for 204,205 and 304; generate error pages for 4xx and 5xx (#1639)
• Fix mod_magnet to set con->mode = p->id if it generates content, so returning 4xx/5xx doesn't append an error page
• Remove lighttpd.spec* from source, fixing all problems with it ;-)
• Do not rely on PATH_MAX (POSIX does not require it) (#580)
• Disable logging to access.log if filename is an empty string
• Implement a clean way to open /dev/null and use it to close stdin/out/err in the needed places (#624)
• merge spawn-fcgi changes from trunk (from @2191)
• let spawn-fcgi propagate exit code from spawned fcgi application
• close connection after redirect in trigger_b4_dl (thx icy)
• close connection in mod_magnet if returned status code
• fix bug with IPv6 in mod_evasive (#1579)
• fix scgi HTTP/1.* status parsing (#1638), found by met@uberstats.com
• tests fixed system, use foreground daemons and waitpid
• tests removed pidfile from test system
• tests fixed tests needing php running (if not running on port 1026, search php in envPHP or /usr/bin/php-cgi)
• fixed typo in mod_accesslog (#1699)
• replaced buffer_{append,copy}_string with the _len variant where possible (#1732) (thx crypt)
• case insensitive match for secdownload md5 token (#1710)
• Handle only HEAD, GET and POST in mod_dirlisting (same as in staticfile) (#1687)
• fixed mod_secdownload problem with unsigned time_t (#1688)
• handle EAGAIN and EINTR for freebsd sendfile (#1675)
• Use filedescriptor 0 for mod_scgi spawn socket, redirect STDERR to /dev/null (#1716)
• fixed round-robin balancing in mod_proxy (#1715)
• fixed EINTR handling for waitpid in mod_fastcgi
• mod_{fast,s}cgi: overwrite environment variables (#1722)
• inserted many con->mode checks; they should prevent two modules to handle the same request if they shouldn't (#631)
• fixed url encoding to encode more characters (#266)
• allow digits in scgi env vars (#1712)
• fixed dropping last character of evhost pattern (#161)
• print helpful error message on conditionals in global block (#1550)
• decode url before matching in mod_rewrite (#1720)
• fixed conditional patching of ldap filter (#1564)
• Match headers case insensitive in response (removing of X-{Sendfile,LIGHTTPD-*}, catching Date/Server)
• fixed bug with case-insensitive filenames in mod_userdir (#1589), spotted by "anders1"
• fixed format string bugs in mod_accesslog for SYSLOG
• replaced fprintf with log_error_write in fastcgi debug
• fixed mem leak in ssi expression parser (#1753), thx Take5k
• hide some ssl errors per default, enable them with debug.log-ssl-noise (#397)
• do not send content-encoding for 304 (#1754), thx yzlai
• fix segfault for stat_cache(fam) calls with relative path (without '/', can be triggered by x-sendfile) (#1750)
• fix splitting of auth-ldap filter
• workaround ldap connection leak if a ldap connection failed (restarting ldap)
• fix auth.backend.ldap.bind-dn/pw problems (only read from global context for temporary ldap reconnects, thx ruskie)
• fix memleak in request header parsing (#1774, thx qhy)
• fix mod_rewrite memleak/endless loop detection (#1775, thx phy - again!)
• use decoded url for matching in mod_redirect (#1720)

External references¶

• http://www.lighttpd.net/2008/9/30/1-4-20-Otherwise-the-terrorists-win

Downloads¶

• http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.20.tar.gz
• MD5: 7ce7eefb487682b61d9b06b41864c64a
• SHA1: 61790c02d9e96c3cb23ffd3907f1caee64c475dd
• http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.20.tar.bz2
• MD5: ed6ee0bb714f393219a32768d86984d8
• SHA1: e5944a40579e0f37c6a0eeb0ad751344b2d6006c