CVE-2001-1036
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.
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 59% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:findutils
- slackware:slackware_linux