Debian 2.2 Potato DSA-005-1 Critical Slocate Local Exploit Advisory

Package : slocate
Problem type : local exploit
Debian-specific: no

Michel Kaempf reported a security problem in slocate (a secure version
of locate, a tool to quickly locate files on a filesystem) on bugtraq
which was originally discovered by zorgon. He discovered there was
a bug in the database reading code which made it overwrite a internal
structure with some input. He then showed this could be exploited
to trick slocate into executing arbitrary code by pointing it to a
carefully crafted database.

This has been fixed in version 2.4-2potato1 and we recommend that you
upgrade your slocate package immediately.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

Source archives:

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