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CVE-2005-0488

Certain BSD-based Telnet clients, including those used on Solaris and SuSE Linux, allow remote malicious Telnet servers to read sensitive environment variables…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
MicrosoftTelnet Client
Version 5.1.2600.2180
MitKerberos 5
Version 1.3.4
SunSunos
Version 5.9

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