Vulnerability in Telnetd
CVE-2005-2040
Multiple buffer overflows in the getterminaltype function in telnetd for Heimdal before 0.6.5 may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0468 and CVE-2005-0469.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.028 (86.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 86.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.028 · newest: 0.028 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Telnetd — versions 0.3f, 0.4a, 0.4b
References
- www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2005-06-20/ (Vendor Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-758 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/15718 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-24.xml (vendor-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_40_heimdal.html (vendor-advisory)