Published: 18/10/1997 Updated: 17/08/2022

CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 1000

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in telnet daemon tgetent routing allows remote malicious users to gain root access via the TERMCAP environmental variable.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/588/info A buffer overflow existed in libtermcap's tgetent() function, which could cause the user to execute arbitrary code if they were able to supply their own termcap file Versions of libtermcap 208 and earliear are vulnerable Under Red Hat Linux 52 and 42, this could lead to local users gaining ...

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/588/info A buffer overflow existed in libtermcap's tgetent() function, which could cause the user to execute arbitrary code if they were able to supply their own termcap file Versions of libtermcap 208 and earliear are vulnerable Under Red Hat Linux 52 and 42, this could lead to local users gaining r ...

NVD-CWE-Other https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0192 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19465/

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