> Debian: inetutils Important Telnetd Login Bypass CVE-2026-24061 DSA-6106-1
[DATE: 22/01/2026 07:19]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
Kyu Neushwaistein discovered that telnetd from inetutils does not sanitize the USER environment variable before passing it on to login. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to login as root, bypassing normal authentication processes. For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed