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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-02
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PACKAGE : slocate
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE    : 2003-02-02 13:36 UTC
EXPLOIT : local

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- From advisory: 

"The overflow appears when the slocate is  runned with two parameters: 
-c and -r, using as arguments a 1024 (or 10240, as Knight420 has 
informed us earlier) bytes string."
 
Read the full advisory at 
http://www.usg.org.uk/advisories/2003.001.txt
 
SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
sys-apps/slocate upgrade to slocate-2.7 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge -u slocate
emerge clean

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