CVE-2005-2040

critical

Description

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.

References

http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2005-06-20/

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_40_heimdal.html

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-24.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-758

http://secunia.com/advisories/15718

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-06-20

Updated: 2008-09-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical