Vulnerability in Gnu Findutils
CVE-2001-1036
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.
EPSS: 0.009 (55.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Gnu Findutils — versions 4.0, 4.1
- Slackware Slackware_linux — versions 7.1, 8.0
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)