Debian Security Advisory
DSA-770-1 gopher -- insecure tmpfile creating
- Date Reported:
- 29 Jul 2005
- Affected Packages:
- gopher
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1853.
- More information:
-
John Goerzen discovered that gopher, a client for the Gopher Distributed Hypertext protocol, creates temporary files in an insecure fashion.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.3woody3.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.7sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.9.
We recommend that you upgrade your gopher package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.3woody3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopherd_3.0.3woody3_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gopher/gopher_3.0.7sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.