CVE-1999-1090

CVE-1999-1090 affects the NCSA Telnet package for Macintosh and PC. The default configuration enables FTP even though there is no ftp=yes flag, allowing remote attackers to read and modify arbitrary files. The available connected documents confirm the existence and impact of this configuration is...

CVE-2005-0469

CVE-2005-0469 is a buffer overflow in the LINEMODE handling path (slc_add_reply) in BSD-based Telnet clients. The connected Mariner entry notes CVE-2005-0469 affecting telnet 0.17-81 with no patch available yet. The root cause is a buffer overflow triggered by replies containing a large number of...