National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2001-0554
Orirignal release date: 2001-08-14
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Buffer overflow in BSD-based telnetd telnet daemon on various operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a set of options including AYT (Are You There), which is not properly handled by the telrcv function.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 10 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input buffer="1"
    Impact Type: sec_prot admin="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Solaris (Sun)
    Linux Netkit (Netkit)
    AIX (IBM)
    Kerberos 5 (MIT)
    IRIX (SGI)
    FreeBSD (FreeBSD)
    OpenBSD (OpenBSD)
    NetBSD (NetBSD)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2001-0554