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High ALAS2-2020-1422 1 CVE

Important: telnet security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published May 5, 2020 · Updated May 6, 2020

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-10188: utility.c in telnetd in netkit telnet through 0.17 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via short writes or urgent data, because of a buffer overflow involving the netclear and nextitem functions. 1811673: CVE-2020-10188 telnet-server: no bounds checks in nextitem() function allows to remotely execute arbitrary code

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 telnet 1:0.17-65.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 telnet-debuginfo 1:0.17-65.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 telnet-server 1:0.17-65.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-10188.html