Debian/inetutils: critical 9.8

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.

Action: Upgrade inetutils to 2:2.4-2+deb12u2 or later.

Affected

Fixed versions

Sources

• osv: DEBIAN-CVE-2026-24061
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-24061

published 2026-01-21T07:16:01.597Z · modified 2026-10-01T08:47:33.257812371Z · JSON