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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-02 |
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PACKAGE : slocate |
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SUMMARY : buffer overflow |
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DATE : 2003-02-02 13:36 UTC |
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EXPLOIT : local |
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- From advisory: |
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"The overflow appears when the slocate is runned with two parameters: |
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- -c and -r, using as arguments a 1024 (or 10240, as Knight420 has |
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informed us earlier) bytes string." |
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Read the full advisory at |
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http://www.usg.org.uk/advisories/2003.001.txt |
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SOLUTION |
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It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running |
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sys-apps/slocate upgrade to slocate-2.7 as follows: |
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emerge sync |
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emerge -u slocate |
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emerge clean |
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