suse · CVE-2007-2452

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CVE-2007-2452 severity moderate: SUSE including 10 source package names (findutils-4.10.0-160000.2.2, findutils-4.4.0-38.24.11, …), 14 product×package rows across 8 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, … (8 product lines)): Fixed 14.

Description:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the visit_old_format function in locate/locate.c in locate in GNU findutils before 4.2.31 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long pathname in a locate database that has the old format, a different vulnerability than CVE-2001-1036.