Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53127
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-428)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'slocate' package(s) announced via the DSA-428 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'slocate' package(s) announced via the DSA-428 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: A vulnerability was discovered in slocate, a program to index and search for files, whereby a specially crafted database could overflow a heap-based buffer. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local attacker to gain the privileges of the 'slocate' group, which can access the global database containing a list of pathnames of all files on the system, including those which should only be visible to privileged users. This problem, and a category of potential similar problems, have been fixed by modifying slocate to drop privileges before reading a user-supplied database. For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.6-1.3.2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. Refer to Debian bug #226103 for status information. We recommend that you update your slocate package. Affected Software/OS: 'slocate' package(s) on Debian 3.0. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 4.6 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0848 Bugtraq: 20031006 SA-20031006 slocate vulnerability (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106546447321274&w=2 Bugtraq: 20031011 SA-20031006 slocate buffer overflow - exploitation proof (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106589631819348&w=2 Debian Security Information: DSA-428 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-428 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-January/msg00009.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:004 http://www.ebitech.sk/patrik/SA/SA-20031006-A.txt http://www.ebitech.sk/patrik/SA/SA-20031006.txt https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11033 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A821 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2004:040 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-040.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-041.html SCO Security Bulletin: CSSA-2004-001.0 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Workstation/CSSA-2004-001.0/CSSA-2004-001.0.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/10670 http://secunia.com/advisories/10683 http://secunia.com/advisories/10686 http://secunia.com/advisories/10698 http://secunia.com/advisories/10702 http://secunia.com/advisories/10720 http://secunia.com/advisories/10722 http://secunia.com/advisories/9962/ SGI Security Advisory: 20040201-01-U ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040201-01-U.asc SGI Security Advisory: 20040202-01-U ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040202-01-U.asc http://www.trustix.org/errata/misc/2004/TSL-2004-0005-slocate.asc.txt
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