Bug 249353

Summary:	CVE-2000-1191 htdig configuration file path disclosure flaw
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	htdig	Assignee:	Adam Tkac <atkac>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	2.1	CC:	ovasik, rbiba
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OS:	Linux
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Description Josh Bressers 2007-07-23 21:14:43 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #218715 +++

It has recently come to our attention that CVE-2000-1191 is not fixed in the
htdig packages shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.  This flaw is
fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 by the htdig-3.2.0b6-unescaped_output.patch
patch file.

More details regarding this flaw are available here:
http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/5YQ0C000IU.html

To quote that page (in the event the URL becomes invalid someday)

    Exploit:
    When requesting a URL such as:
    http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=aaa

    The htDig engine will reply with an error saying that it could not find the   
    configuration file 'aaa', but the error string includes the full directory  
    path of the configuration file.

This bug is a clone for RHEL2.1, which is still vulnerable to this flaw.

Comment 1 Adam Tkac 2007-07-25 13:06:11 UTC

This is "pseudo-security" issue. I don't think that is exploitable when someone
knows path to configfile. We will leave 2.1 unfixed...

Adam

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2007-07-25 13:26:51 UTC

The security team agrees.

Closing WONTFIX