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Fedora update for slocate Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA10722  
Release Date: 2004-01-27

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Fedora Core 1


CVE reference:CVE-2003-0848 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Red Hat has issued updated packages for slocate. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain "slocate" group privileges.

For more information:
SA9962

Solution:
Updated packages:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/

01bf7fd37e5eeb0f4ec4bdc09a4f236e SRPMS/slocate-2.7-4.src.rpm
ecec8659907bbbe65297b634d930b9ae i386/slocate-2.7-4.i386.rpm
33661442e2657b361a64acac29e0cea8 i386/debug/slocate-debuginfo-2.7-4.i386.rpm

Original Advisory:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-January/msg00009.html

Other References:
SA9962:
http://secunia.com/advisories/9962/



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