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Debian Security Advisory DSA 428-1 (slocate)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to slocate announced via advisory DSA 428-1.
Insight
Insight
A vulnerability was discovered in slocate, a program to index and search for files, whereby a specially crafted database could overflow a heap-based buffer. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local attacker to gain the privileges of the slocate group, which can access the global database containing a list of pathnames of all files on the system, including those which should only be visible to privileged users. This problem, and a category of potential similar problems, have been fixed by modifying slocate to drop privileges before reading a user-supplied database. For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.6-1.3.2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. Refer to Debian bug #226103 for status information. We recommend that you update your slocate package.
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20428-1