The telnet package provides a command line telnet client.
Gael Delalleau discovered an information disclosure issue in the way the
telnet client handles messages from a server. An attacker could construct
a malicious telnet server that collects information from the environment of
any victim who connects to it. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0488 to this issue.
Users of telnet should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a
backported patch to correct this issue.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | any | s390x | telnet-server | < 0.17-26.EL3.3 | telnet-server-0.17-26.EL3.3.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | any | ppc | telnet | < 0.17-26.EL3.3 | telnet-0.17-26.EL3.3.ppc.rpm |
RedHat | any | s390 | telnet | < 0.17-31.EL4.3 | telnet-0.17-31.EL4.3.s390.rpm |
RedHat | any | i386 | telnet-server | < 0.17-31.EL4.3 | telnet-server-0.17-31.EL4.3.i386.rpm |
RedHat | any | s390x | telnet-server | < 0.17-31.EL4.3 | telnet-server-0.17-31.EL4.3.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | any | i386 | telnet | < 0.17-26.EL3.3 | telnet-0.17-26.EL3.3.i386.rpm |
RedHat | any | i386 | telnet | < 0.17-20.EL2.4 | telnet-0.17-20.EL2.4.i386.rpm |
RedHat | any | x86_64 | telnet | < 0.17-26.EL3.3 | telnet-0.17-26.EL3.3.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | any | i386 | telnet-server | < 0.17-20.EL2.4 | telnet-server-0.17-20.EL2.4.i386.rpm |
RedHat | any | ppc | telnet-server | < 0.17-31.EL4.3 | telnet-server-0.17-31.EL4.3.ppc.rpm |