CVE-2005-0468 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0468
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-224-1 SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101665-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101671-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57755-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57761-1 SGI SAID Secunia Advisory: SA17899 Secunia Advisory: SA14745 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-327.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-330.html MANDRAKE http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:061 IDEFENSE http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=221&type=vulnerabilities FREEBSD DEBIAN http://www.debian.de/security/2005/dsa-731 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-703 CONFIRM http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2005-001-telnet.txt CONECTIVA http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000962 CERT-VN 341908 BID 12919

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