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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-0082

NIXPKGS-2026-0082
published on 23 Jan 2026
updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
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telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass …

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.7 allows remote authentication bypass via a "-f root" value for the USER environment variable.

Affected products

Inetutils
  • =<2.7

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Upstream advisory: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-01/msg00004.html