Gentoo: slocate buffer overflow vulnerability
The overflow appears when the slocate is run with two parameters: -c and -r, using as arguments a 1024 bytes string.
Summary
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From advisory:
"The overflow appears when the slocate is runned with two parameters: -c and -r, using as arguments a 1024 (or 10240, as Knight420 has informed us earlier) bytes string."
Read the full advisory at
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running sys-apps/slocate upgrade to slocate-2.7 as follows:
emerge sync emerge -u slocate emerge clean
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PACKAGE : slocate
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
EXPLOIT : local
