CVE-2005-0468
Description
From CVE.org
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.
Statement
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank iDefense for reporting this issue.
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