CVE-2001-1036 (GCVE-0-2001-1036)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2003-04-02 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 04:44
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6932 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3127 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200991 mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.osvdb.org/5477 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a n/a Version: n/a
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