CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-2452

6.0 MEDIUM Published 2007-06-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-06-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the visit_old_format function in locate/locate.c in locate in GNU findutils before 4.2.31 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long pathname in a locate database that has the old format, a different vulnerability than CVE-2001-1036.

Affected configurations

• gnu findutils 4.0 • gnu findutils 4.1 • gnu findutils 4.2.28 • gnu findutils 4.2.29 • gnu findutils 4.2.30

References