Fedora: slocate Heap overflow vulnerability
Summary
Slocate is a security-enhanced version of locate. Just like locate,
slocate searches through a central database (which is updated nightly)
for files which match a given pattern. Slocate allows you to quickly
find files anywhere on your system.
Update Information:
Patrik Hornik discovered a vulnerability in Slocate versions up to and
including 2.7 where a carefully crafted database could overflow a
heap-based buffer. A local user could exploit this vulnerability to gain
"slocate" group privileges and then read the entire slocate database. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned
the name CAN-2003-0848 to this issue.
Users of Slocate should upgrade to these packages which contain a
patch from Kevin Lindsay which causes slocate to drop privileges before
reading a user-supplied database.
* Wed Jan 21 2004 Mark Cox <mjc@redhat.com>
- drop privs for non slocate gid databases (CAN-2003-0848)
- update to 2.7
This update can be downloaded from:
01bf7fd37e5eeb0f4ec4bdc09a4f236e SRPMS/slocate-2.7-4.src.rpm
ecec8659907bbbe65297b634d930b9ae i386/slocate-2.7-4.i386.rpm
33661442e2657b361a64acac29e0cea8 i386/debug/slocate-debuginfo-2.7-4.i386.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can l...
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References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-059 2004-01-26 Name : slocate Version : 2.7 Release : 4 Summary : Finds files on a system via a central database. Description : Slocate is a security-enhanced version of locate. Just like locate, slocate searches through a central database (which is updated nightly) for files which match a given pattern. Slocate allows you to quickly find files anywhere on your system.
Update Instructions
