| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| krb5 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u9 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1.15-1+deb9u3 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1.15-1+deb9u6 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 1.17-3+deb10u7 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1.17-3+deb10u6 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 1.18.3-6+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 1.20.1-2+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.21.3-3 | fixed |
| netkit-telnet (PTS) | jessie | 0.17-36 | fixed |
| stretch | 0.17-41 | fixed |
| buster | 0.17-41.2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 0.17-42 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| krb4 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
| krb5 | source | (unstable) | 1.8.3+dfsg-4 | unimportant | | |
| netkit-telnet | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
[woody] - krb4 <no-dsa> (Documented behaviour in MIT Kerberos)
[sarge] - krb4 <no-dsa> (Documented behaviour in MIT Kerberos)
[woody] - krb5 <no-dsa> (Documented behaviour in MIT Kerberos)
[sarge] - krb5 <no-dsa> (Documented behaviour in MIT Kerberos)
- netkit-telnet <not-affected> (netkit-telnet is not affected)
telnet code was removed earlier than 1.8.3, but that's the version that was available to check