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Fedora Core 1 : slocate-2.7-4 (2004-059)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 13672

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Patrik Hornik discovered a vulnerability in Slocate versions up to and including 2.7 where a carefully crafted database could overflow a heap-based buffer. A local user could exploit this vulnerability to gain 'slocate' group privileges and then read the entire slocate database. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0848 to this issue.
Users of Slocate should upgrade to these packages which contain a patch from Kevin Lindsay which causes slocate to drop privileges before reading a user-supplied database.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected slocate and / or slocate-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?658f5c08

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 13672

File Name: fedora_2004-059.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2004

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:slocate, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:slocate-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/26/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0848

FEDORA: 2004-059