USN-8387-1: Inetutils vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Inetutils telnet daemon incorrectly handled the CREDENTIALSDIRECTORY environment variable. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. CVE-2026-28372 It was discovered that the Inetutils telnet daemon did not properly validate buffer bounds when...

CVE-2026-28372

telnetd in GNU inetutils through 2.7 allows privilege escalation that can be exploited by abusing systemd service credentials support added to the login1 implementation of util-linux in release 2.40. This is related to client control over the CREDENTIALSDIRECTORY environment variable, and require...

Exploit for CVE-2026-24061

CVE-2026-24061 GNU inetutils-telnetd - Remote Authenticati...