| Debian Security Advisory DSA 428-1 | security@debian.org |
| http://www.debian.org/security/ | Matt Zimmerman |
| January 20th, 2004 | http://www.debian.org/security/faq |
| Package | : | slocate |
| Vulnerability | : | buffer overflow |
| Problem-Type | : | local |
| Debian-specific | : | no |
| CVE Ids | : | CAN-2003-0848 |
A vulnerability was discovered in slocate, a program to index
and search for files, whereby a specially crafted database could
overflow a heap-based buffer. This vulnerability could be exploited
by a local attacker to gain the privileges of the “slocate” group,
which can access the global database containing a list of pathnames
of all files on the system, including those which should only be
visible to privileged users.
This problem, and a category of potential similar problems, have
been fixed by modifying slocate to drop privileges before reading a
user-supplied database.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has
been fixed in version 2.6-1.3.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed
soon. Refer to Debian bug #226103 for status information.
We recommend that you update your slocate package.
Upgrade Instructions
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 550 c7f271bba7c5a72afb00d43c23a04b79
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 7956 4e7a025fe5ec8239ae851dc68a533332
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 69213 08b1902323d686130a6daaca1fac61fc
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 28252 48d6e572d33b4c323287ef1ff5e518a9
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 25738 6fa6e7d8e667fb177e957bcdd55180a6
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 25236 f933cdc3212314e1ac466c9c7a475783
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 31678 ec2b14f300b9d3f8ef181fcf098f2321
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 27342 e381228bd7f449cef8f83e9650780f40
Motorola 680×0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 24766 9c97e390e83c686c55a62ed6e4de9b89
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 26036 aeeb915edaed844e6660c3e8357d1500
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 25592 fabe9486658781a7584a583e07370442
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 26132 cfc21b52bf0b7cb709d8d885747eedee
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 26196 1cf03d61937b7fc9763939fe1ee799a4
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 28456 ad26841de8d50097e83d2f8111b965f5
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution
on its next revision.
For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>’ and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>