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> Debian: inetutils Important Telnetd Login Bypass CVE-2026-24061 DSA-6106-1

[SOURCE] LinuxSecurity - Debian [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
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