CVE-2005-2040: Telnetd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in the getterminaltype function in telnetd for Heimdal before 0.6.5 may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0468 and CVE-2005-0469.

Affected products

• Telnetd Telnetd: version 0.3f only; version 0.4a only; version 0.4b only; version 0.4c only; version 0.4d only; version 0.4e only; …

Published 2005-06-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.