[SECURITY] [DSA 428-1] New slocate packages fix buffer overflow

From: Matt Zimmerman (mdz_at_debian.org)
Date: 01/20/04

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    Debian Security Advisory DSA 428-1 security@debian.org
    http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
    January 20th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : slocate
    Vulnerability : buffer overflow
    Problem-Type : local
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Ids : CAN-2003-0848

    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.

    Upgrade Instructions
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    wget url
            will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
            will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
            will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
            will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.

    Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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      Source archives:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2.dsc
          Size/MD5 checksum: 550 c7f271bba7c5a72afb00d43c23a04b79
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2.diff.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum: 7956 4e7a025fe5ec8239ae851dc68a533332
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6.orig.tar.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum: 69213 08b1902323d686130a6daaca1fac61fc

      Alpha architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_alpha.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 28252 48d6e572d33b4c323287ef1ff5e518a9

      ARM architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_arm.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 25738 6fa6e7d8e667fb177e957bcdd55180a6

      Intel IA-32 architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_i386.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 25236 f933cdc3212314e1ac466c9c7a475783

      Intel IA-64 architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_ia64.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 31678 ec2b14f300b9d3f8ef181fcf098f2321

      HP Precision architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_hppa.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 27342 e381228bd7f449cef8f83e9650780f40

      Motorola 680x0 architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_m68k.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 24766 9c97e390e83c686c55a62ed6e4de9b89

      Big endian MIPS architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_mips.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 26036 aeeb915edaed844e6660c3e8357d1500

      Little endian MIPS architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_mipsel.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 25592 fabe9486658781a7584a583e07370442

      PowerPC architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_powerpc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 26132 cfc21b52bf0b7cb709d8d885747eedee

      IBM S/390 architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_s390.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 26196 1cf03d61937b7fc9763939fe1ee799a4

      Sun Sparc architecture:

        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_sparc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum: 28456 ad26841de8d50097e83d2f8111b965f5

      These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
      its next revision.

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    Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/>
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