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Debian: DSA 387-1 Critical: Gopherd Remote Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2003
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Swiftly update your gopherd installation to remediate a buffer overflow flaw impacting the gopher service on Debian platforms, thereby bolstering defenses against potential security threats.
gopherd, a gopher server from the University of Minnesota, contains anumber of buffer overflows which could be exploited by a remoteattacker to execute arbitrary code with the priv...

Summary

gopherd, a gopher server from the University of Minnesota, contains a
number of buffer overflows which could be exploited by a remote
attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the gopherd
process (the "gopher" user by default).

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.3woody1.

This program has been removed from the unstable distribution (sid).
gopherd is deprecated, and users are recommended to use PyGopherd instead.

We recommend that you update your gopherd package.

Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

Source...

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Package: gopher

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