Issued:
2009-03-11
Updated:
2009-09-02

RHBA-2009:0291 - htdig bug fix update

Synopsis

htdig bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated htdig packages that resolve several issues are now available.

Description

The ht://Dig system is a complete World Wide Web indexing and searching system for a small domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace the need for powerful Internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek, Webcrawler and AltaVista. Instead, it is intended to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or even a particular subsection of a website. As opposed to some WAIS-based or web server-based search engines, ht://Dig can span several web servers at a site, as long as they understand the HTTP 1.0 protocol.

These updated htdig packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

  • updating the htdig packages incorrectly removed configuration files, which were written over with the original configuration files. This no longer occurs with these updated packages.

  • in cases where htdig attempted to run the parser configured in the "external_parsers" attribute in the htdig.conf configuration file, and running that parser failed, then htdig could attempt to parse its own error messages. With this update, htdig is prevented from parsing data incorrectly in such a manner, exits from such a situation correctly, and displays an improved error message when running the external parser fails.

  • running "htfuzzy soundex" after indexing with htdig resulted in spurious error messages when the "allow_numbers" attribute of the htdig.conf configuration file was set to set to true.

  • calling either the "htstat" or "htfuzzy" command when the database contained zero words resulted in a segmentation fault, which has been fixed in these updated packages.

All users of htdig are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.s390x.rpm
  • htdig-web-3.2.0b6-11.el5.ppc.rpm
  • htdig-web-3.2.0b6-11.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.src.rpm
  • htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.ppc.rpm
  • htdig-web-3.2.0b6-11.el5.s390x.rpm
  • htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.i386.rpm
  • htdig-web-3.2.0b6-11.el5.ia64.rpm
  • htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • htdig-web-3.2.0b6-11.el5.i386.rpm
  • htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.ia64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information