A telnet security update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELSA-2020-1318 Important: Oracle Linux 8 telnet security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2020-1318

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-1318.html

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

x86_64:
telnet-0.17-73.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
telnet-server-0.17-73.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
telnet-0.17-73.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
telnet-server-0.17-73.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/telnet-0.17-73.el8_1.1.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[1:0.17-73.1]
- Resolves: #1814473 - Arbitrary remote code execution in utility.c via
short writes or urgent data