telnet-pocs-2026

All Telnet PoCs — Consolidated All proof-of-concept exploits...

Critical Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2025-4.0-0899

Updates of 'docker-compose', 'netkit-telnet', 'linux' packages of Photon OS have been released...

Critical Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2025-5.0-0666

Updates of 'glibc', 'netkit-telnet', 'libsoup' packages of Photon OS have been released...

EUVD-2020-2649

Malware in sbrugna...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-10188

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - utility.c in telnetd in netkit telnet through 0.17 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via short writes or urgent data, because of a buffer overfl...

CentOS 7 : telnet (RHSA-2020:1334)

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1334 advisory. - utility.c in telnetd in netkit telnet through 0.17 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via short writes or urgent data, because of a buffer...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Inetutils vulnerability (USN-5048-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5048-2 advisory. USN-5048-1 fixed a vulnerability in Inetutils for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding fixes for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Tenabl...

Important Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2023-3.0-0665

Updates of 'netkit-telnet', 'go' packages of Photon OS have been released...

Important Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2023-5.0-0108

Updates of 'netkit-telnet', 'go' packages of Photon OS have been released...

Important Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2023-4.0-0483

Updates of 'linux-esx', 'netkit-telnet', 'linux-secure', 'linux-aws', 'linux-rt', 'linux' packages of Photon OS have been released...

SUSE CVE-2020-10188

utility.c in telnetd in netkit telnet through 0.17 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via short writes or urgent data, because of a buffer overflow involving the netclear and nextitem functions...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2022-0460)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

MGASA-2022-0460 Updated netkit-telnet packages fix security vulnerability

2-byte DoS in netkit-telnetd. CVE-2022-39028...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2020-0211)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : telnet Vulnerability (NS-SA-2020-0055)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has telnet packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - utility.c in telnetd in netkit telnet through 0.17 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via short writes or urgent data, because of a buffer...

EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : telnet (EulerOS-SA-2020-2065)

According to the version of the telnet packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - utility.c in telnetd in netkit telnet through 0.17 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via short writes or urgent data, because of a...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : krb5-appl Vulnerability (NS-SA-2020-0049)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.05, has krb5-appl packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - utility.c in telnetd in netkit telnet through 0.17 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via short writes or urgent data, because of a buffer overflow...

EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : telnet (EulerOS-SA-2020-1617)

According to the version of the telnet packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - utility.c in telnetd in netkit telnet through 0.17 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via short writes or urgent data, because of a...

Amazon Linux 2 : telnet (ALAS-2020-1422)

The version of telnet installed on the remote host is prior to 0.17-65. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2020-1422 advisory. utility.c in telnetd in netkit telnet through 0.17 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via short writes or urgent data...

Netkit telnet buffer overflow vulnerability

Netkit telnet is a telnet client program for use in the Linux platform. The program is mainly used to interact and communicate with another host using the TELNET protocol. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the utility.c file of telnetd in netkit telnet 0.17 and earlier versions. A remote...