Fedora 10 Update: nikto-2.03-1.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-3249
2009-04-02 16:29:38
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Name        : nikto
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 2.03
Release     : 1.fc10
URL         : http://www.cirt.net/code/nikto.shtml
Summary     : Web server scanner
Description :
Nikto is a web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web
servers for multiple items, including over 3300 potentially dangerous
files/CGIs, versions on over 625 servers, and version specific problems
on over 230 servers. Scan items and plugins are frequently updated and
can be automatically updated (if desired).

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Update Information:

New upstream release, various enhancements and fixes:    - Fingerprinting web
servers via favicon.ico files  -  404 checking for each file type  - Enhanced
false positive reduction via multiple methods: headers, page content, and
content hashing  - Scan tuning to include or exclude entire classes of
vulnerability checks  - Expanded scan database can have multiple positive or
negative triggers, to allow AND/OR/NOT for flexible checks
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr  1 2009 Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal <sindrepb at fedoraproject.org> - 2.03-1
- New upstream release
* Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.36-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #493148 - Version 2.03 Available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493148
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update nikto' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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