GNU Inetutils Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

GNU Inetutils is a collection of network tools from the GNU Project that contains common network management programs such as traceroute, hostname, ifconfig, and others. The toolset is mainly used for functions such as network diagnostics, configuration and system information query. An elevation o...

CVE-2023-40303

GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of setid family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary us...

CVE-2023-40303

GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of setid family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary us...

Privilege escalation

GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of setid family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary us...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-40303

GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of setid family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary us...

CVE-2023-40303

CVE-2023-40303 relates to inetutils, where multiple set*id() return values were not checked in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd, enabling potential local privilege escalation. Affected software: GNU inetutils (various Unix/Linux distros). Impact: privilege escalation if setuid/setgid/seteu...

CVE-2023-40303

GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of setid family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary us...

CVE-2023-40303

GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of setid family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary us...

PT-2023-27371 · Gnu +2 · Gnu Inetutils +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GNU inetutils versions prior to 2.5 Description: The issue allows privilege escalation due to unchecked return values of setid family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is relevant if the setuid system call fails when ...

SUSE CVE-2022-39028

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.3, MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, and derivative works has a NULL pointer dereference via 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...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : telnet (SUSE-SU-2022:3783-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3783-1 advisory. - CVE-2022-39028: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in telnetd bsc1203759. Tenable has extracted the precedi...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : telnet (SUSE-SU-2022:3735-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3735-1 advisory. - CVE-2022-39028: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in telnetd bsc1203759. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from...

CVE-2022-39028

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.3, MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, and derivative works has a NULL pointer dereference via 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...

CVE-2022-39028

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.3, MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, and derivative works has a NULL pointer dereference via 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...

CVE-2022-39028

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.3, MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, and derivative works has a NULL pointer dereference via 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...

Null pointer dereference

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.3, MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, and derivative works has a NULL pointer dereference via 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...

CVE-2022-39028

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.3, MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, and derivative works has a NULL pointer dereference via 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...

CVE-2022-39028

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.3, MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, and derivative works has a NULL pointer dereference via 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...

CVE-2022-39028

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.3, MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, and derivative works has a NULL pointer dereference via 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...

CVE-2022-39028

CVE-2022-39028 affects telnetd in GNU Inetutils up to 2.3 and MIT krb5-appl up to 1.0.3 (and derivatives). The issue is a NULL pointer dereference via 0xff 0xf7 or 0xff 0xf8, causing telnetd to crash; in typical installs the service stays up via inetd, but repeated crashes can render the telnet s...