GLSA: slocate

From: Daniel Ahlberg (alizat_private)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 05:36:25 PST

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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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