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Fedora 7.2-8.0 FLSA:1232 Critical Slocate Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey February 18, 2004
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A local user could exploit this vulnerability to gain "slocate" group privileges and then read the entire slocate database.

Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Linux buffer overflow privilege escalation slocate

Change Log

References


CVE -CVE-2003-0848 CVE -CVE-2003-0056 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004:041.html



9. Contact:

The Fedora Legacy security contact is <secnotice@fedoralegacy.org>. More project details at http://www.fedoralegacy.org

- -- Jesse Keating RHCE ( ) Fedora Legacy Team (http://www.fedoralegacy.org)



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security advisory Red Hat Linux buffer overflow privilege escalation slocate

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