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Debian 3.0 DSA 529-1 Critical Remote Execution via Netkit-Telnet-SSL

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2004
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Debian Advisory DSA 529-1 highlights a critical remote execution bug in netkit-telnet-ssl. Immediate update advised!
Vulnerability in netkit-telnet-ssl could potentially allow a remote attacker to cause the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the telnet daemon.

Summary

b0f discovered a format string vulnerability in netkit-telnet-ssl
which could potentially allow a remote attacker to cause the execution
of arbitrary code with the privileges of the telnet daemon (the
'telnetd' user by default).

For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been
fixed in version 0.17.17+0.1-2woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.17.24+0.1-2.

We recommend that you update your netkit-telnet-ssl package.

Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

These files will probably be moved into the st...

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Package: netkit-telnet-ssl

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