CVE-2005-2040

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-06-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the getterminaltype function in telnetd for Heimdal before 0.6.5 may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0468 and CVE-2005-0469.

Affected products

Telnetd: 0.3f, 0.4a, 0.4b, 0.4c, 0.4d, 0.4e (+7)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/15718
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-758
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-24.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_40_heimdal.html
http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2005-06-20/
http://secunia.com/advisories/15718
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-758
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-24.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_40_heimdal.html
http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2005-06-20/

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