Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:36:25 +0100
From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: GLSA: slocate
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-02
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PACKAGE : slocate
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-02-02 13:36 UTC
EXPLOIT : local
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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
http://www.usg.org.uk/advisories/2003.001.txt
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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