CVE-2001-1036

Publication date

2003-04-02 05:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

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.