Debian Security Advisory

DSA-252-1 slocate -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

21 Feb 2003

Affected Packages:

slocate

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 6676.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0056.

More information:

A problem has been discovered in slocate, a secure locate replacement. A buffer overflow in the setgid program slocate can be used to execute arbitrary code as group slocate. This can be used to alter the slocate database.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.6-1.3.1.

The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by this problem.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your slocate package immediately.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.