CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-2499

Published: Aug 23, 2005 | Modified: Oct 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

slocate before 2.7 does not properly process very long paths, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (updatedb exit and incomplete slocate database) via a certain crafted directory structure.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Slocate Slocate 2.1 (including) 2.1 (including)
Slocate Slocate 2.2 (including) 2.2 (including)
Slocate Slocate 2.3 (including) 2.3 (including)
Slocate Slocate 2.4 (including) 2.4 (including)
Slocate Slocate 2.5 (including) 2.5 (including)
Slocate Slocate 2.6 (including) 2.6 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RedHat slocate-0:2.7-3.RHEL3.6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat slocate-0:2.7-13.el4.6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 RedHat *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 RedHat *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 RedHat *
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 RedHat *

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