Debian Security Advisory
DSA-428-1 slocate -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 20 Jan 2004
- Affected Packages:
- slocate
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 8780.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0848.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#441956. - More information:
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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.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.