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CVE-2003-0848

Impact:: Moderate
Public Date:: 2003-10-06

Bugzilla:: 1617089: CVE-2003-0848 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2003-0848 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Red Hat Linux 9	RHSA-2004:040	2004-01-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	RHSA-2004:041	2004-01-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	RHSA-2004:041	2004-01-26

Last Modified 2018-08-17T11:08:05+00:00

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