CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1036

7.2 HIGH Published 2001-08-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-08-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu findutils 4.0 • gnu findutils 4.1 • slackware slackware linux 7.1 • slackware slackware linux 8.0

References