Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: slocate security update

An updated slocate package that fixes a denial of service and various bugs is available. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Slocate is a security-enhanced version of locate. Like locate, slocate searches through a central database updat...

Fedora Core 4 : slocate-2.7-22.fc4.1 (2005-770)

A carefully prepared directory structure could stop the updatedb file system scan, resulting in an incomplete slocate database. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has assigned the name CVE-2005-2499 to this issue. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...