Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-0561 - Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in University of Minnesota Gopherd 3.0.3
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Format string vulnerability in the log routine for gopher daemon (gopherd) 3.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Nessus
NASL family Gain a shell remotely NASL id GOPHER_OVERFLOW.NASL description The remote host is running the UMN Gopher server. The remote version of the remote gopher server seems to be vulnerable to various issues including a buffer overflow and format string, which may be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote host with the privileges of the gopher daemon. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 16195 published 2005-01-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/16195 title UMN Gopherd < 3.0.6 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-638.NASL description 'jaguar last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 16156 published 2005-01-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/16156 title Debian DSA-638-1 : gopher - several vulnerabilities