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Heimdal: buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Package(s):heimdal CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2040
Created:June 29, 2005 Updated:July 18, 2005
Description: It has been reported that the "getterminaltype" function of Heimdal's (before 0.6.5) telnetd server is vulnerable to buffer overflows. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the permission of the telnetd server program.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-758-1 2005-07-18
SuSE SUSE-SA:2005:040 2005-07-06
Gentoo 200506-24 2005-06-29
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