CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2022-39028

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.

7.5 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2022-08/msg00002.html Mailing List Vendor Advisory
https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/commit/?id=113da8021710d871c7dd72d2a4d5615d42d64289 Mailing List Patch
https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2022-08-24-2-byte-dos-freebsd-netbsd-telnetd-netkit-telnetd-inetutils-telnetd-kerberos-telnetd.html Exploit Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00033.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2022-08-30 05:15

Updated : 2022-11-29 05:35

NVD link : CVE-2022-39028

Mitre link : CVE-2022-39028

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-476