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high 7.2

CVE-2001-0066 json

Secure Locate (slocate) allows local users to corrupt memory via a malformed database file that specifies an offset value that accesses mem…

published 2001-02-16 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2001-0066

cvss
7.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Secure Locate (slocate) allows local users to corrupt memory via a malformed database file that specifies an offset value that accesses memory outside of the intended buffer.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2001-0066 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 6.0 Red Hat Linux 6.1 Red Hat Linux 6.2 Red Hat Linux 7.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2000:128

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-216)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-216 dislocate 1.3 - Local i386 local, 2000-12-02
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2004 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-11/0356.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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