DSA-770-1 gopher -- insecure tmpfile creating

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-770-1 gopher -- insecure tmpfile creating

Date Reported:

29 Jul 2005

Affected Packages:

gopher

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1853.

More information:

John Goerzen discovered that gopher, a client for the Gopher Distributed Hypertext protocol, creates temporary files in an insecure fashion.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.3woody3.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.7sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.9.

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_3.0.3woody3.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_sparc.deb

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