CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-2772
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-09-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in University of Minnesota gopher client 3.0.9 allow remote malicious servers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long "+VIEWS:" reply, which is not properly handled in the VIfromLine function, and (2) certain arguments when launching third party programs such as a web browser from a web link, which is not properly handled in the FIOgetargv function.
Affected configurations
• university of minnesota gopher 3.0.9
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112559902931614&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16614/ secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17016 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-832 www.debian.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/619812 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14693 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22053 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112559902931614&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16614/ secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17016 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-832 www.debian.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/619812 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14693 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22053 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com