Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6304-1)

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USN-6304-1: Inetutils vulnerabilities

It was discovered that telnetd in GNU Inetutils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS CVE-2022-39028 It was discovered that Inetutils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An...

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...