CVE-2005-0468

Summary

CVECVE-2005-0468
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-05-02 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionHeap-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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ncsa Telnet c All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#341908 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20050405-01-P af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 patches.sgi.com Patch
Secunia - Advisories - MIT Kerberos Telnet Client Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-731-1 krb4 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.de
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-703-1 krb5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Multiple Vendor Telnet Client Env_opt_add Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Home - Conectiva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 distro.conectiva.com.br
#101671: Buffer Overflow in telnet(1) Client Software Also Affects Kerberized Telnet (formerly Document ID: 57761) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com
#101665: Buffer Overflow in telnet(1) Client Software (formerly Document ID: 57755) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com
ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.freebsd.org Vendor Advisory
#101665: Buffer Overflow in telnet(1) Client Software (formerly Document ID: 57755) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com
#101671: Buffer Overflow in telnet(1) Client Software Also Affects Kerberized Telnet (formerly Document ID: 57761) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Accenture | Let there be change af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.idefense.com Vendor Advisory
USN-224-1: Kerberos vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntulinux.org
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for kerberos af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2005-001-telnet.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 web.mit.edu Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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