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Debian Woody: DSA-638-1 Moderate Vulnerabilities in Gopher Remote Access

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2005
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"jaguar" has discovered two security relevant problems in gopherd, the Gopher server in Debian which is part of the gopher package.
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Summary


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It has been replaced by Pygopherd.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.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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

Size/MD5 checksum: 552 8ca5e42b27ee90a38e94bf9a6970c66c
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