| Name | CVE-2026-28372 |
| Description | telnetd in GNU inetutils through 2.7 allows privilege escalation that ... |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-6144-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| inetutils (PTS) | bullseye | 2:2.0-1+deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 2:2.0-1+deb11u3 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 2:2.4-2+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 2:2.4-2+deb12u2 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 2:2.6-3 | vulnerable |
| trixie (security) | 2:2.6-3+deb13u2 | fixed |
| forky, sid | 2:2.7-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - inetutils <ignored> (Not exploitable with util-linux/login Version in Debian bookworm)
[bullseye] - inetutils <ignored> (Not exploitable with util-linux/login Version in Debian bullseye)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-02/msg00000.html
Fixed by: https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=4db2f19f4caac03c7f4da6363c140bd70df31386
systemd service credentials support for login(1) from util-linux introduced in 2.40 release