7.5
HIGH
CVE-2022-39028
GNU Inetutils Telnetd NULL Pointer Dereference in MIT Kerberos
Description

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.3, MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, and derivative works has a NULL pointer dereference via 0xff 0xf7 or 0xff 0xf8. In a typical installation, the telnetd application would crash but the telnet service would remain available through inetd. However, if the telnetd application has many crashes within a short time interval, the telnet service would become unavailable after inetd logs a "telnet/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated" error. NOTE: MIT krb5-appl is not supported upstream but is shipped by a few Linux distributions. The affected code was removed from the supported MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) product many years ago, at version 1.8.

INFO

Published Date :

Aug. 30, 2022, 5:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 7:17 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2022-39028 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Mit kerberos_5
1 Gnu inetutils
1 Netkit-telnet_project netkit-telnet

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2022-39028 vulnerability over time.

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  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/commit/?id=113da8021710d871c7dd72d2a4d5615d42d64289
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00033.html
    Added Reference https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2022-08/msg00002.html
    Added Reference https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2022-08-24-2-byte-dos-freebsd-netbsd-telnetd-netkit-telnetd-inetutils-telnetd-kerberos-telnetd.html
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Reanalysis by [email protected]

    Sep. 27, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:netkit-telnet_project:netkit-telnet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 0.17
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Nov. 29, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00033.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00033.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 25, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00033.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Sep. 06, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/commit/?id=113da8021710d871c7dd72d2a4d5615d42d64289 No Types Assigned https://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/commit/?id=113da8021710d871c7dd72d2a4d5615d42d64289 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2022-08/msg00002.html No Types Assigned https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2022-08/msg00002.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2022-08-24-2-byte-dos-freebsd-netbsd-telnetd-netkit-telnetd-inetutils-telnetd-kerberos-telnetd.html No Types Assigned https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2022-08-24-2-byte-dos-freebsd-netbsd-telnetd-netkit-telnetd-inetutils-telnetd-kerberos-telnetd.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-476
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:gnu:inetutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 2.3
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 1.0.3
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.26 }} 0.07%

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0.64574

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