| Description: | The telnet package provides a command line telnet client.
Gaël Delalleau discovered an information disclosure issue in the way the telnet client handles messages from a server. An attacker could construct a malicious telnet server that collects information from the environment of any victim who connects to it. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0488 to this issue.
Users of telnet should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.
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