USN-5048-2

USN-5048-1 fixed a vulnerability in Inetutils for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding fixes for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Inetutils telnet server allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via short writes or urgent data. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a DoS or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / inetutils

Package

Name: inetutils
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/inetutils@2:1.9.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2:1.9.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Affected versions

2:1.*

2:1.9.4-1

2:1.9.4-1build1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "inetutils-ftp",
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "inetutils-ftpd",
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "inetutils-inetd",
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "inetutils-ping",
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "inetutils-syslogd",
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "inetutils-talk",
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "inetutils-talkd",
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "inetutils-telnet",
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "inetutils-telnetd",
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "inetutils-tools",
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "inetutils-traceroute",
            "binary_version": "2:1.9.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2020-10188",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS"
}