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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-639-1 mactelnet -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

25 Sep 2016

Affected Packages:

mactelnet

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-7115.

More information:

• CVE-2016-7115

  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_ENCRYPTIONKEY control packet.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 0.3.4-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mactelnet packages.

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