Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mactelnet (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published30 Aug 2016
- disclosed30 Aug 2016
Introduced: 30 Aug 2016
CVE-2016-7115 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mactelnet package and not the mactelnet package as distributed by Ubuntu.
Buffer overflow in the handle_packet function in mactelnet.c in the client in MAC-Telnet 0.4.3 and earlier allows remote TELNET servers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in an MT_CPTYPE_PASSSALT control packet.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-7115
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7115
- https://github.com/haakonnessjoen/MAC-Telnet/commit/b69d11727d4f0f8cf719c79e3fb700f55ca03e9a
- https://github.com/haakonnessjoen/MAC-Telnet/pull/20
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92699