find: Security Considerations for locate
11.4 Security Considerations for 'locate'
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11.4.1 Race Conditions
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It is fairly unusual for the output of 'locate' to be fed into another
command. However, if this were to be done, this would raise the same
set of security issues as the use of 'find ... -print'. Although the
problems relating to whitespace in file names can be resolved by using
'locate''s '-0' option, this still leaves the race condition problems
associated with 'find ... -print0'. There is no way to avoid these
problems in the case of 'locate'.