# CVE-2005-0488: Certain BSD-based Telnet clients, including those used on Solaris and SuSE Linux, allow remote malicious Telnet servers to read sensitive en

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2005-06-14 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-504.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014203
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13940
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57755-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800829
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-562.html
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11373
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101665-1
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1139
- http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=260&type=vulnerabilities
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17135
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57761-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101671-1
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_sr.html

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