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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 6:52 pm    Post subject: [gentoo-security] GLSA: slocate Reply with quote

Daniel Ahlberg wrote:
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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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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz
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