[SECURITY] Fedora Core 1 Testing Update: slocate-2.7-4

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jan 21 20:25:51 UTC 2004


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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-059
2004-01-21
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Name        : slocate
Version     : 2.7                      
Release     : 4                  
Summary     : Finds files on a system via a central database.
Description :
Slocate is a security-enhanced version of locate. Just like locate,
slocate searches through a central database (which is updated nightly)
for files which match a given pattern. Slocate allows you to quickly
find files anywhere on your system.

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Update Information:

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 CAN-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. 
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* Wed Jan 21 2004 Mark Cox <mjc at redhat.com>

- drop privs for non slocate gid databases (CAN-2003-0848)
- update to 2.7


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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/

48a9f6409ede89470dbeb9c9be3bbb42  SRPMS/slocate-2.7-4.src.rpm
5cecdaa91d6f26d0285592620d13ac9d  i386/slocate-2.7-4.i386.rpm
b4e7fab0377000fabdd136dbe99a8cea  i386/debug/slocate-debuginfo-2.7-4.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.  You may 
need to edit your up2date channels configuration.  Within 
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line: 
yum updates-testing http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-1
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