CVE-2000-0602: Kevin Lindsay Secure Locate

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Secure Locate (slocate) in Red Hat Linux allows local users to gain privileges via a malformed configuration file that is specified in the LOCATE_PATH environmental variable.

Affected products

• Kevin Lindsay Secure Locate: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only

Published 2000-06-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.