vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2019-0053)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 11, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

inetutils before version 1.9.4.90 contains a stack overflow vulnerability in the client-side environment variable handling which can be exploited to escape restricted shells on embedded devices. A stack-based overflow is present in the handling of environment variables when connecting telnet.c to remote telnet servers through oversized DISPLAY arguments.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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