DEBIAN-CVE-2022-39028
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
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | inetutils | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:14 | inetutils | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:13 | inetutils | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:11 | inetutils | 0, 0, 2:2.0-1 |
Exploit Intelligence
- index.html (github-poc)
Timeline
- Aug 30, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated