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RedHat: RHSA-2020-1318-01 Important: Telnet Remote Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey April 6, 2020
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An update for telnet is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Telnet is a popular protocol for logging in to remote systems over the Internet. The telnet-server packages include a telnet service that supports remote logins into the host machine. The telnet service is disabled by default.
Security Fix(es):
* telnet-server: no bounds checks in nextitem() function allows to remotely execute arbitrary code (CVE-2020-10188)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update remote access important arbitrary code telnet red hat enterprise

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10188 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: telnet-0.17-73.el8_1.1.src.rpm
aarch64: telnet-0.17-73.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm telnet-debuginfo-0.17-73.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm telnet-debugsource-0.17-73.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm telnet-server-0.17-73.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm telnet-server-debuginfo-0.17-73.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: telnet-0.17-73.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm telnet-debuginfo-0.17-73.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm telnet-debugsource-0.17-73.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm telnet-server-0.17-73.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm telnet-server-debuginfo-0.17-73.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: telnet-0.17-73.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm telnet-debuginfo-0.17-73.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm telnet-debugsource-0.17-73.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm telnet-server-0.17-73.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm telnet-server-debuginfo-0.17-73.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: telnet-0.17-73.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm telnet-debuginfo-0.17-73.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm telnet-debugsource-0.17-73.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm telnet-server-0.17-73.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm telnet-server-debuginfo-0.17-73.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1318-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1318
Issue date: 2020-04-06

Topic

An update for telnet is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update remote access important arbitrary code telnet red hat enterprise

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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