Bugtraq: Re: Ultimate Bulletin Board v5.3x? Bug

[jr () SCMS RGU AC UK (John Riddoch)]

> By default, Member files are stored in the /cgi-bin/Members directory. The
> members files are stored as numbers, with a .cgi extension, eg: 00000001.cgi
>
> Under unix, if you put in http://www.url.blah/cgi-bin/Members/00000001.cgi,
> the server will return a 500 error, however, under NT with ActivePerl (v5.07
> I believe?), it will return something like this:
>
> CGI Error
<SNIP>
> How to fix? change the members path to something more like
> xvc83nx9wy4nd0w74m3. That will solve it
Better to make it something a bit more mnemonic, eg member.data and tell the
web server not to serve it.

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