Vulnerability CVE-2005-2040
Published: 2005-06-20   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Telnetd -> Telnetd 

 References:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15718
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
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