USN-5048-1

It was discovered that Inetutils telnet server allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via short writes or urgent data. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a DoS or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / inetutils

Package

Name: inetutils
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/inetutils@2:1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2:1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

2:1.*

2:1.9.4-2build1

2:1.9.4-3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "inetutils-ftp"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "inetutils-ftpd"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "inetutils-inetd"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "inetutils-ping"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "inetutils-syslogd"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "inetutils-talk"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "inetutils-talkd"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "inetutils-telnet"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "inetutils-telnetd"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "inetutils-tools"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "inetutils-traceroute"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2020-10188",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-5048-1.json"

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / inetutils