Published: 03/11/2004 Updated: 11/07/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 445

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

telnetd for netkit 0.17 and previous versions, and possibly other versions, on Debian GNU/Linux allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (free of an invalid pointer), a different vulnerability than CVE-2001-0554.

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A buffer overflow was discovered in the telnet client’s handling of the LINEMODE suboptions By sending a specially constructed reply containing a large number of SLC (Set Local Character) commands, a remote attacker (i e a malicious telnet server) could execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running the telnet client (CAN- ...

Michal Zalewski discovered a bug in the netkit-telnet server (telnetd) whereby a remote attacker could cause the telnetd process to free an invalid pointer This causes the telnet server process to crash, leading to a straightforward denial of service (inetd will disable the service if telnetd is crashed repeatedly), or possibly the execution of ar ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/375743 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-556 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=273694 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17540 https://usn.ubuntu.com/101-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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