Vulnerability in Kevin Lindsay Secure Locate

CVE-2000-0602

Secure Locate (slocate) in Red Hat Linux allows local users to gain privileges via a malformed configuration file that is specified in the LOCATE_PATH environmental variable.

EPSS: 0.004 (28.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Kevin_lindsay Secure_locate — versions 2.0, 2.1
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)