Security: non-root users may have access to the slocate database

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Subject: Security: non-root users may have access to the slocate database
From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:22:03 +0100
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Any comment on bug 282355?

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=282355

Some non-root users may have access to the slocate database, hence
to filenames that are normally accessible only by root. Isn't that
a security hole?

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