CVE-2005-0488

Publication date 14 June 2005

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
netkit-telnet 7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected