SECURITY: Fedora 32 Update: telnet-0.17-79.fc32
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-11ea78ff8e
2020-04-01 16:31:17.046333
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Name : telnet
Product : Fedora 32
Version : 0.17
Release : 79.fc32
URL : http://web.archive.org/web/20070819111735/www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dholland/computers/old-netkit.html
Summary : The client program for the Telnet remote login protocol
Description :
Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the
Internet. The package provides a command line Telnet client
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Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2020-10188
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Mar 27 2020 Michal Ruprich - 1:0.17-79
- Resolves: #1814478 - Arbitrary remote code execution in utility.c via short writes or urgent data
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1811673 - CVE-2020-10188 telnet-server: no bounds checks in nextitem() function allows to remotely execute arbitrary code
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811673
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-11ea78ff8e' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
A telnet security update has been released for Fedora 32.