Security Advisory

CVE-2005-0468

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-03-28 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 21:13:54
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.