Debian dla-3611 : inetutils - security update

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3611 advisory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3611-1 [email protected]...

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...