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Debian Security Advisory DSA 832-1 (gopher)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to gopher announced via advisory DSA 832-1. 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.

Solution

Solution

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. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20832-1

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)