iDEFENSE Security Advisory 03.28.05 - Remote exploitation of an buffer overflow vulnerability error in multiple telnet clients may allow execution of arbitrary commands. The vulnerability specifically exists in the handling of the LINEMODE suboptions, in that there is no size check made on the output, which is stored in a fixed length buffer. iDEFENSE has confirmed the existence of the vulnerability in the telnet client included in the Kerberos V5 Release 1.3.6 package and the client included in the SUNWtnetc package of Solaris 5.9. It is suspected that most BSD based telnet clients are affected by this vulnerability.
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