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DEBIAN-CVE-2022-39028

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-39028 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.3, MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, and derivative works has a NULL pointer dereference via 0xff 0xf7 or 0xff 0xf8. In a typical installation, the telnetd application would crash but the telnet service would remain available through inetd. However, if the telnetd application has many crashes within a short time interval, the telnet service would become unavailable after inetd logs a "telnet/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated" error. NOTE: MIT krb5-appl is not supported upstream but is shipped by a few Linux distributions. The affected code was removed from the supported MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) product many years ago, at version 1.8.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12inetutils0, 0, 0
Debian:14inetutils0, 0, 0
Debian:13inetutils0, 0, 0
Debian:11inetutils0, 0, 2:2.0-1

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Aug 30, 2022 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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