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CVE-2001-1036

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
31/08/2001
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

GNU locate in findutils 4.1 on Slackware 7.1 and 8.0 allows local users to gain privileges via an old formatted filename database (locatedb) that contains an entry with an out-of-range offset, which causes locate to write to arbitrary process memory.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.20
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:findutils:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:findutils:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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