CVE-2005-0468 (GCVE-0-2005-0468)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-03-28 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 21:13
VLAI
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the env_opt_add function in telnet.c for various BSD-based Telnet clients allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via responses that contain a large number of characters that require escaping, which consumers more memory than allocated.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.debian.de/security/2005/dsa-731 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advis… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SGI
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ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
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Date Public
2005-03-28 00:00
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