CVE-2005-0468

Upstream information

CVE-2005-0468 at MITRE

Description

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 66128 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 73618 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 75256 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SR:2005:009, published Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SR:2005:012, published Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:02:21 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:11:42 2023