Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 14, 2005· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2005-0488
CVE-2005-0488
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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Affected products
5- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:telnet_client:5.1.2600.2180:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
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References
19- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.donvdPatchVendor Advisory
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.donvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800829nvdPatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
- idefense.com/application/poi/displaynvdVendor Advisory
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.htmlnvdUS Government Resource
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.htmlnvd
- secunia.com/advisories/17135nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/21253nvd
- securitytracker.com/idnvd
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.donvd
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.donvd
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_sr.htmlnvd
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-504.htmlnvd
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-562.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/13940nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289nvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11373nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1139nvd
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