CVE-2001-1036 Information

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.

Reference

http://www.osvdb.org/5477 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200991 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3127 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6932