Executive Summary

Summary
Title New gopher packages fix insecure temporary file creation
Informations
Name DSA-770 First vendor Publication 2005-07-29
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2005-07-29
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-770

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 770-1 (gopher)
File : nvt/deb_770_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
18390 Multiple Gopher Client Insecure Temporary File Creation Privilege Escalation

Gopher contains a flaw that may allow a malicious local user to overwrite or create arbitrary files on the system. The issue is due to routines in the 'gopher.c' file creating temporary files insecurely in the /tmp folder. It is possible for a user to use a symlink style attack to manipulate arbitrary files, resulting in a loss of integrity.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-01-12 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-773.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-07-31 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-770.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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