Debian Security Advisory

DSA-832-1 gopher -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:

30 Sep 2005

Affected Packages:

gopher

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2772.

More information:

Several buffer overflows have been discovered in gopher, a text-oriented client for the Gopher Distributed Hypertext protocol, that can be exploited by a malicious Gopher server.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.3woody4.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.7sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.11.

We recommend that you upgrade your gopher package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody4.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody4.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody4_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody4_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody4_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody4_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody4_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody4_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody4_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody4_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody4_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody4_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody4_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody4_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody4_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody4_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody4_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody4_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody4_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody4_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody4_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.