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gopher: buffer overflows

Package(s):

gopher

CVE #(s):

CAN-2005-2772

Created:

September 30, 2005

Updated:

October 5, 2005

Description:

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.

Alerts:

Debian

DSA-832-1

2005-09-30

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gopher: buffer overflows

Posted Oct 6, 2005 14:30 UTC (Thu) by fm2503 (guest, #2776) [Link]

Are either of the two remaining gopher servers on the net malicious? ;)