Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-10188  

A vulnerability was found in inetutils before version 1.9.4.91 where incorrect bounds checks in the telnet server’s (telnetd) handling of short writes and urgent data could lead to information disclosure and corruption of heap data. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit these bugs by sending specially crafted telnet packets to achieve arbitrary code execution in the telnet server.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

A vulnerability was found in inetutils before version 1.9.4.91 where incorrect bounds checks in the telnet server’s (telnetd) handling of short writes and urgent data could lead to information disclosure and corruption of heap data. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit these bugs by sending specially crafted telnet packets to achieve arbitrary code execution in the telnet server.

AVG-1003 inetutils 1.9.4-8 High Vulnerable

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811673
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=inetutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=cd7e7e685daeafb68f19347747af6340731a4518