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slocate buffer overflow
Secunia Advisory: SA7947
Release Date: 2003-01-27
Last Update: 2003-02-06
Popularity: 7,587 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Red Hat Linux 7.2
Red Hat Linux 7.3
Red Hat Linux 8.0

Software:slocate 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Advisory Content (Page 2 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Solution:
If slocate isn't needed you could remove the setgid bit from '/usr/bin/slocate'.

Version 2.7 isn't vulnerable and can be downloaded from:
ftp://ftp.geekreview.org/slocate/

RedHat has not issued updates yet.

Provided and/or discovered by:
inkubus, USG

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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