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krb5 — security advisory
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.
- Products
- krb5
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.8.3+dfsg-4
- CVEs
- CVE-2005-0488
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0488
krb5
Fixed versions: 1.8.3+dfsg-4
krb5
Fixed versions: 1.8.3+dfsg-4
krb5
Fixed versions: 1.8.3+dfsg-4
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T03:47:31.735126120Z",
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