Gentoo: 200410-03 High: NetKit-telnetd Buffer Overflow Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: NetKit-telnetd: buffer overflows in telnet and telnetd Date: October 05, 2004 Bugs: #64632 ID: 200410-03

Synopsis ======= Buffer overflows exist in the telnet client and daemon provided by netkit-telnetd, which could possibly allow a remote attacker to gain root privileges and compromise the system.
Background ========= NetKit-telnetd is a standard Linux telnet client and server from the NetKit utilities.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/netkit-telnetd <= 0.17-r3 >= 0.17-r4
========== A possible buffer overflow exists in the parsing of opti...