Replacement for locate on Fedora?
Replacement for locate on Fedora?
Posted Oct 11, 2023 12:11 UTC (Wed) by fredrik (subscriber, #232)In reply to: So why not simply uninstall it? by zdzichu
Parent article: A remote code execution vulnerability in GNOME
I was just about to suggest to jreiser to install the package plocate instead.
https://plocate.sesse.net/
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/plocate/plocate/
Though, plocate is implemented in C++, so it too seems to use a memory-unsafe language to parse unsafe user input.
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