- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.5
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
- Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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