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Debian 10 Buster: DLA-3205-1 Moderate: Inetutils Buffer Oversight

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Calendar Grey November 25, 2022
Dist Debian Esm H88
The Debian Long Term Support Advisory DLA-3205-1 identifies several security vulnerabilities in inetutils. It is advisable to upgrade promptly to maintain system integrity.
Several security vulnerabilities were discovered in inetutils, a collection of common network programs

Summary

CVE-2019-0053

inetutils' telnet client doesn't sufficiently validate environment
variables, which can lead to stack-based buffer overflows. This
issue is limited to local exploitation from restricted shells.

CVE-2021-40491

inetutils' ftp client before 2.2 does not validate addresses
returned by PSV/LSPV responses to make sure they match the server
address. A malicious server can exploit this flaw to reach services
in the client's private network. (This is similar to curl's
CVE-2020-8284.)

CVE-2022-39028

inetutils's telnet server through 2.3 has a NULL pointer dereference
which a client can trigger by sending 0xff 0xf7 or 0xff 0xf8. In a
typical installation, the telnetd application would crash but the
telnet service would remain available through inetd. However, if the
telnetd application has many crashes within a short time interval,
the telnet service would become unavailable after inetd logs a

Read the Full Advisory


Package: inetutils
Version: 2:1.9.4-7+deb10u2
CVE ID: CVE-2019-0053 CVE-2021-40491 CVE-2022-39028
Debian Bug: 945861 956084 993476

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