A telnet bug fix and enhancement update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELBA-2021-0543 Oracle Linux 8 telnet bug fix and enhancement update

Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2021-0543

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2021-0543.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
telnet-0.17-74.el8_3.1.x86_64.rpm
telnet-server-0.17-74.el8_3.1.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
telnet-0.17-74.el8_3.1.aarch64.rpm
telnet-server-0.17-74.el8_3.1.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/telnet-0.17-74.el8_3.1.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[1:0.17-74.1]
- Resolves: #1907283 - in.telnetd needs to tolerate temporary EIO errors

[1:0.17-74]
- Resolves: #1814474 - Arbitrary remote code execution in utility.c via short writes or urgent data