From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2007 - 13:47:04 CDT

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TITLE:
GNU findutils locate Long Path Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25477

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25477/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
GNU findutils 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/14390/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in GNU findutils, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when parsing
"old" style formatted locate databases. This can be exploited to
cause a heap-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into
running locate on a specially crafted "old" style database containing
an overly long path (more than 1026 bytes).

The vulnerability is reported in all releases of GNU findutils prior
to 4.2.31.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.2.31.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/findutils-4.2.31.tar.gz.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by the GNU Project. The vendor also thanks Rob Holland and
Tavis Ormandy.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2007-05/msg00012.html

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