CVE-2003-0848
4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
6.8 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
0.4%
Heap-based buffer overflow in main.c of slocate 2.6, and possibly other versions, may allow local users to gain privileges via a modified slocate database that causes a negative “pathlen” value to be used.
Affected configurations
References
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Workstation/CSSA-2004-001.0/CSSA-2004-001.0.txt
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040201-01-U.asc
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040202-01-U.asc
marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106546447321274&w=2
marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106589631819348&w=2
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-040.html
secunia.com/advisories/10670
secunia.com/advisories/10683
secunia.com/advisories/10686
secunia.com/advisories/10698
secunia.com/advisories/10702
secunia.com/advisories/10720
secunia.com/advisories/10722
secunia.com/advisories/9962/
www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-428
www.ebitech.sk/patrik/SA/SA-20031006-A.txt
www.ebitech.sk/patrik/SA/SA-20031006.txt
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:004
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-January/msg00009.html
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-041.html
www.trustix.org/errata/misc/2004/TSL-2004-0005-slocate.asc.txt
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11033
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A821
Related
4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
6.8 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
0.4%