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.
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-2007-0026.html