CVE-2001-0834: Conectiva Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Conectiva Linux: version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 2.2 only
• Htdig Htdig: up to and including 3.1.5
• Suse Suse Linux: version 6.3 only; version 6.4 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only

Published 2001-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.