CVE-2022-39028
Publication date 30 August 2022
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
Cvss 3 Severity Score
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.
Status
Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
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inetutils | 24.10 oracular |
Not affected
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24.04 LTS noble |
Not affected
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22.04 LTS jammy |
Fixed 2:2.2-2ubuntu0.1
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20.04 LTS focal |
Fixed 2:1.9.4-11ubuntu0.2
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18.04 LTS bionic |
Needs evaluation
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16.04 LTS xenial |
Needs evaluation
|
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14.04 LTS trusty |
Needs evaluation
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Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
---|---|
Base score | 7.5 · High |
Attack vector | Network |
Attack complexity | Low |
Privileges required | None |
User interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | None |
Integrity impact | None |
Availability impact | High |
Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References
Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)
- USN-6304-1
- Inetutils vulnerabilities
- 22 August 2023
Other references
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2022-08/msg00002.html
- https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2022-08-24-2-byte-dos-freebsd-netbsd-telnetd-netkit-telnetd-inetutils-telnetd-kerberos-telnetd.html
- https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/commit/?id=113da8021710d871c7dd72d2a4d5615d42d64289
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39028