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[ANNOUNCE] Apache HTTP Server 2.0.50 Released
Apache HTTP Server 2.0.50 Released

The Apache Software Foundation and the The Apache HTTP Server Project are
pleased to announce the release of version 2.0.50 of the Apache HTTP
Server ("Apache"). This Announcement notes the significant changes
in 2.0.50 as compared to 2.0.49. The Announcement is also available in
German from:

http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.txt.de

This version of Apache is principally a bug fix release. A summary of
the bug fixes is given at the end of this document. Of particular
note is that 2.0.50 addresses two security vulnerabilities:

A remotely triggered memory leak in http header parsing can allow a
denial of service attack due to excessive memory consumption.
[http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0493]

Fixes a mod_ssl buffer overflow in the FakeBasicAuth code for a
(trusted) client certificate subject DN which exceeds 6K in length.
[http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0488]

This release is compatible with modules compiled for 2.0.42 and later
versions. We consider this release to be the best version of Apache
available and encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade.

Apache HTTP Server 2.0.50 is available for download from

http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Please see the CHANGES_2.0 file, linked from the above page, for
a full list of changes.

Apache 2.0 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance
boosts over the 1.3 codebase. For an overview of new features introduced
after 1.3 please see

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/new_features_2_0.html

When upgrading or installing this version of Apache, please keep
in mind the following:
If you intend to use Apache with one of the threaded MPMs, you must
ensure that the modules (and the libraries they depend on) that you
will be using are thread-safe. Please contact the vendors of these
modules to obtain this information.

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