Hi,

Yes, I missed that. My apologies.

Yoann Congal <[email protected]>, 5 Şub 2026 Per, 13:27 tarihinde şunu
yazdı:

> On Thu Feb 5, 2026 at 10:55 AM CET, Alper Ak via lists.openembedded.org
> wrote:
> > Details: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24061
> >
> > The vulnerability is about:
> >
> > The telnetd server invokes /usr/bin/login (normally running as root)
> > passing the value of the USER environment variable received from the
> > client as the last parameter.
> >
> > If the client supply a carefully crafted USER environment value being
> > the string "-f root", and passes the telnet(1) -a or --login parameter
> > to send this USER environment to the server, the client will be
> > automatically logged in as root bypassing normal authentication
> > processes.
> >
> > This happens because the telnetd server do not sanitize the USER
> > environment variable before passing it on to login(1), and login(1)
> > uses the -f parameter to by-pass normal authentication.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alper Ak <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  .../inetutils/CVE-2026-24061-01.patch         | 38 +++++++++
> >  .../inetutils/CVE-2026-24061-02.patch         | 82 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  .../inetutils/inetutils_2.7.bb                |  2 +
> >  3 files changed, 122 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644
> meta/recipes-connectivity/inetutils/inetutils/CVE-2026-24061-01.patch
> >  create mode 100644
> meta/recipes-connectivity/inetutils/inetutils/CVE-2026-24061-02.patch
>
> Hello Alper,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
> Sorry but that patch was already sent a few days ago:
>   [PATCH] inetutils: patch CVE-2026-24061
>   https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/230248
> ... and that patch should merge shortly.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Yoann Congal
> Smile ECS
>
>
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