CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0834

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2001-12-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-12-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Description

htsearch CGI program in htdig (ht://Dig) 3.1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to use the -c option to specify an alternate configuration file, which could be used to (1) cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by specifying a large file such as /dev/zero, or (2) read arbitrary files by uploading an alternate configuration file that specifies the target file.

Affected configurations

• htdig htdig (<= 3.1.5) • conectiva linux 5.0 • conectiva linux 5.1 • conectiva linux 6.0 • conectiva linux 7.0 • debian debian linux 2.2 • suse suse linux 6.3 • suse suse linux 6.4 • suse suse linux 7.0 • suse suse linux 7.1 • suse suse linux 7.2 • suse suse linux 7.3

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