CVE-2001-1036

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

GNU locate in findutils 4.1 on Slackware 7.1 and 8.0 allows local users to gain privileges via an old formatted filename database (locatedb) that contains an entry with an out-of-range offset, which causes locate to write to arbitrary process memory.

GNU locate in findutils 4.1 on Slackware 7.1 and 8.0 allows local users to gain privileges via an old formatted filename database (locatedb) that contains an entry with an out-of-range offset, which causes locate to write to arbitrary process memory.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-08-31 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

GNU findutils 4.0

4.0

GNU findutils 4.1

4.1

Slackware Linux 7.1

7.1

Slackware Linux 8.0

8.0

References

5477

20010801 Slackware 8.0, 7.1 Vulnerability: /usr/bin/locate

3127

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

locate-command-execution(6932)

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