Debian GNU/Linux Advisory: slocate

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>