CVE-2005-0488

N/A Unknown

Published: June 14, 2005 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

Certain BSD-based Telnet clients, including those used on Solaris and SuSE Linux, allow remote malicious Telnet servers to read sensitive environment variables via the NEW-ENVIRON option with a SEND ENV_USERVAR command.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=260&type=vulnerabilities

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/17135

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/21253

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://securitytracker.com/id?1014203

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101665-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101671-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57755-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57761-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800829

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Third Party Advisory US Government Resource

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_sr.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-504.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-562.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13940

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

US Government Resource

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11373

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1139

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=260&type=vulnerabilities