7.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2003-0056

Published: 19/02/2003 Updated: 11/10/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 725
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in secure locate (slocate) prior to 2.7 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) -c or (2) -r command line argument.

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slocate slocate 2.5

slocate slocate 2.6

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/6676/info A vulnerability has been discovered in slocate It has been reported that a buffer overrun occurs when running the slocate program with command line arguments of excessive length Specifically, it is possible to overrun a buffer in slocate by supplying excessive data as the regex ('-r') and parse ...