Gaël Delalleau discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of the LINEMODE suboptions in telnet clients. This can lead to the execution of arbitrary code when connected to a malicious server. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17.17+0.1-2woody4. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.17.24+0.1-8. We recommend that you upgrade your telnet-ssl package.
Gaël Delalleau discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of the LINEMODE suboptions in telnet clients. This can lead to the execution of arbitrary code when connected to a malicious server.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17.17+0.1-2woody4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.17.24+0.1-8.
We recommend that you upgrade your telnet-ssl package.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.