Bug 114013

Summary: CAN-2003-0848 slocate buffer overflow
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: slocateAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 3.0CC: rvokal
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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-01-21 13:42:59 UTC 
A heap-based buffer overflow in slocate can allow local users to gain
"slocate" privileges via a modified slocate database that causes a
negative "pathlen" value.

        CAN-2003-0848 Affects: 2.1AS 2.1AW 2.1ES 2.1WS
        CAN-2003-0848 Affects: 3AS 3ES 3WS
Comment 1 Ed Bailey 2004-01-21 21:35:04 UTC 
You might want to fix the CVE name in the summary (it should be
'8*4*8)... :-)
Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2004-01-26 18:58:18 UTC 
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-041.html