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Debian DSA-638-1 : gopher - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 16156

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

'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.

Solution

Upgrade the gopherd package.

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

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-638

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 16156

File Name: debian_DSA-638.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/13/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gopher

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/24/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0560, CVE-2004-0561

DSA: 638