Hi,

I'm sending this message out essentially twice. The contents are 
included in the 3.1.5 release notes, but I wanted to make sure 
everyone got the message. There is a security hole in all versions of 
htsearch prior to version 3.1.5 (just released).

This hole can allow remote users to read any file on your system that 
the UID running your webserver can read.

It is *strongly* recommended that you upgrade to 3.1.5 ASAP. Anyone 
upgrading from a 3.1.x stable release will find the process fairly 
painless and to fix the hole, they can simply drop in the new CGI. 
The databases themselves are not affected.

Anyone using version 3.2.0b1 is suggested to upgrade to the latest 
development snapshot. The next beta version, 3.2.0b2, will be 
released shortly to address this issue and other bugs.

More detailed information will be posted to the BugTraq mailing list 
in a few days.

-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/

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