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Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers
Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers
January 23, 2026 Friday
CVE-2026-24061 (9.8) – critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) is “trivial” to exploit.
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