Vulnerability in Gnu Inetutils

CVE-2004-1485

Buffer overflow in the TFTP client in InetUtils 1.4.2 allows remote malicious DNS servers to execute arbitrary code via a large DNS response that is handled by the gethostbyname function.

EPSS: 0.025 (82.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Gnu Inetutils — versions 1.4.2
Tftp — versions 0.29, 0.32, 0.34
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)