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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2020-6b07ff2526 Critical: Telnet Remote Code Execution

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Fedora users should urgently update their telnet packages to fix the critical CVE-2020-10188 remote code execution vulnerability, safeguarding their systems
Security fix for CVE-2020-10188

Summary

Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the

Internet. The package provides a command line Telnet client

Security fix for CVE-2020-10188

* Fri Mar 27 2020 Michal Ruprich - 1:0.17-77

- Resolves: #1814478 - Arbitrary remote code execution in utility.c via short writes or urgent data

[ 1 ] Bug #1811673 - CVE-2020-10188 telnet-server: no bounds checks in nextitem() function allows to remotely execute arbitrary code

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811673

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-6b07ff2526' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 30
Version: 0.17
Release: 77.fc30
Summary: The client program for the Telnet remote login protocol

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