USN-7781-1

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USN-7781-1

Summary: inetutils vulnerabilities

Details: Matthew Hickey discovered that Inetutils did not correctly handle certain escape characters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-0053) It was discovered that Inetutils did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-10188) It was discovered that Inetutils did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-39028) It was discovered that Inetutils did not check the return values of set*id functions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate their privileges. (CVE-2023-40303)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7781-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-0053, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-10188, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-39028, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-40303