DSA-638-1 gopher -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-638-1 gopher -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

13 Jan 2005

Affected Packages:

gopher

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0560, CVE-2004-0561.

More information:

"jaguar" has discovered two security relevant problems in gopherd, the Gopher server in Debian which is part of the gopher package. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities:

• CAN-2004-0560

  An integer overflow can happen when posting content of a specially calculated size.

• CAN-2004-0561

  A format string vulnerability has been found in the log routine.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.3woody2.

The unstable distribution (sid) does not contain a gopherd package. It has been replaced by Pygopherd.

We recommend that you upgrade your gopherd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody2.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody2_sparc.deb

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