From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: The current stable httpd package in RHEL4 contains a bug in APR which requires R_OK to be present on a directory in order to read it's contents when really only X_OK is necessary. This bug was fixed in the Apache 2.0.53 release More information is available here: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30137 This is somewhat of a security issue, as it requires more permissions to be set than necessary to allow httpd access to web content. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): httpd-2.0.52-9.ent How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: N/A Additional info:
Thanks for the report.
Hello, I'm just wondering if there's going to be a patch released for this at some point in the near future? Thanks, Brian
Brian, the fix is currently scheduled for inclusion in U2 - experimental test packages are available here: http://people.redhat.com/jorton/Nahant-apr/
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-622.html