Critical Telnet Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Fedora Core 2 2005-277

Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the

Internet. The telnet package provides a command line telnet client.

Two buffer overflow flaws were discovered in the way the telnet client

handles messages from a server. An attacker may be able to execute

arbitrary code on a victim's machine if the victim can be tricked into

connecting to a malicious telnet server. The Common Vulnerabilities and

Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names CAN-2005-0468

and CAN-2005-0469 to these issues.

Red Hat would like to thank iDEFENSE for their responsible disclosure of

this issue.

- fixed CAN-2005-468 and CAN-2005-469

24aa5985deaa986141292837ba73249b SRPMS/telnet-0.17-28.FC2.1.src.rpm

2fc2868d96e97260cfbae7f9b6557c02 x86_64/telnet-0.17-28.FC2.1.x86_64.rpm

536604c795642bdf90c1568a8c2db5a5 x86_64/telnet-server-0.17-28.FC2.1.x86_64.rpm

827d2014eacad235de5f0b7c0be5e716 x86_64/debug/telnet-debuginfo-0.17-28.FC2.1.x86_64.rpm

81b0c394c3d9fb8b852d3a847c11cf02 i386/telnet-0.17-28.FC2.1.i386.rpm

d1e36e266c88b50d0e1b4f879a981786 i386/telnet-server-0.17-28.FC2.1.i386.rpm

8fd31e10878d243a4b0f6d3e3e6d3b25 i386/debug/telnet-debuginfo-0.17-28.FC2.1.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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