CVE-2003-0805: University Of Minnesota Gopherd

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in UMN gopher daemon (gopherd) 2.x and 3.x before 3.0.6 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long filename as a result of a LIST command, and (2) the GSisText function, which calculates the view-type.

Affected products

• University Of Minnesota Gopherd: version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.3 only; version 2.3.1 only; version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; …

Published 2003-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.