CVE-2022-39028

krb5-appl: NULL pointer dereference

Published Aug 30, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 2.3% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3205-1 inetutils security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-41574 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6304-1 Inetutils vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7781-1 Inetutils vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 11:10 AM
Reserved
Aug 30, 2022, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 30, 2022, 5:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:57 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Aug 30, 2022, 12:00 AM