oss-security - Re: Remote Pre-Auth Buffer Overflow in GNU Inetutils telnetd (LINEMODE SLC)

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Message-ID: <874imj5krz.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:15:12 -0700
From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Remote Pre-Auth Buffer Overflow in GNU Inetutils
 telnetd (LINEMODE SLC)

Justin Swartz <justin.swartz@...ingedge.co.za> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> I would like to draw the community's attention to the following
> vulnerability [1], summarized as "Remote Pre-Auth Buffer Overflow
> in GNU Inetutils telnetd (LINEMODE SLC)", which was reported to
> the bug-inetutils mailing list recently.
>
> I am not affiliated with the researchers, inetutils, nor GNU/FSF.
>
> Regards,
> Justin
>
> ---
>
> [1]
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2026-03/msg00031.html

This was assigned CVE-2026-32746 by MITRE [1].

Collin

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-32746

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