CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0848

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2003-11-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-11-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in main.c of slocate 2.6, and possibly other versions, may allow local users to gain privileges via a modified slocate database that causes a negative "pathlen" value to be used.

Affected configurations

• slocate slocate 2.1 • slocate slocate 2.2 • slocate slocate 2.3 • slocate slocate 2.4 • slocate slocate 2.5 • slocate slocate 2.6

References