VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-0468

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability27.07%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-05-02
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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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