GNU Inetutils maintainer
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Opened the upstream fix and coordinated disclosure
In March 2026, researchers found a buffer overflow in GNU telnetd that had hidden in the codebase for roughly 32 years. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-32746, lets a remote attacker corrupt server memory before the login prompt ever appears. Because most Linux distributions and countless embedded devices base their telnet daemons on GNU inetutils, the vulnerable code ships almost everywhere.
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