Jim Barrett via plug on 22 Jan 2026 06:58:02 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers

It's a really bad day to be an old embedded device with no upgrade path. IOT be damned

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Jim Barrett
Galloway, NJ



On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 9:22 AM jeffv via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/root_telnet_bug/



A recently disclosed critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnet
daemon (telnetd) is "trivial" to exploit, experts say.

The bug, which had gone unnoticed for nearly 11 years, was disclosed on
January 20 and is tracked as CVE-2026-24061 (9.8).
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