Title: SSLTelnetd Unspecified Format String Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
SSLTelnetd is a utility that implements the telnet protocol over SSL in an attempt to facilitate a secure telnet environment. It is available for UNIX and Linux platforms.
Reportedly SSLTelnetd is affected by an unspecified format string vulnerability. This issue is due to an improper implementation of a formatted string function.
Specific technical details about this issue were not disclosed. It is conjectured that due to the nature of the affected application, this issue is remotely exploitable.
As a result of this issue, malicious data containing format specifiers will be interpreted literally by the application; this may result in attacker-specified memory being corrupted or disclosed, leading to arbitrary code execution.
This vulnerability is reported to affect Linux Netkit netkit-telnet-ssl 0.17.17, however, it is likely that other versions are affected as well.
This BID will be updated when more information becomes available.
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 sparc
- Netkit Linux Netkit 0.17.17
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