Debian Security Advisory DSA 770-1 (gopher)

The remote host is missing an update to gopher announced via advisory DSA 770-1. 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 versio...

CVE-2005-1853

CVE-2005-1853 affects the Gopher client (gopher.c) in version 3.0.5, where temporary files are created insecurely, enabling local privilege escalation. Multiple connected sources (Debian DSA-770-1 / DSA-770-1 advisory notes; Debian OpenVAS entry) confirm the vulnerability and provide remediation ...

CVE-2005-1853

gopher.c in the Gopher client 3.0.5 does not properly create temporary files, which allows local users to gain privileges...

[SECURITY] [DSA 770-1] New gopher packages fix insecure temporary file creation

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 770-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze July 29th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...