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Re: Slackware 8.0, 7.1 Vulnerability: /usr/bin/locate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Smith)
Thu Aug 2 01:56:10 2001
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:37:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Smith <avalon73@arthurian.nu>
Reply-To: Brian Smith <avalon73@arthurian.nu>
To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
Cc: Olaf Bohlen <firefox@is.sun-powered.de>, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> This Slackware locatedb vulnerability is a perfect example to counter
> your reasoning.
It's apparently something that's changed in later versions of Slackware.
Here's one from my machine, which was originally Slack3.5 (before going
through several upgrades, of course):
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 740500 Aug 1 04:03 locatedb
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