Critical (9.8) in gnu inetutils. EPSS 45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
telnetd in GNU inetutils through 2.7 allows an out-of-bounds write in the LINEMODE SLC (Set Local Characters) suboption handler because add_slc does not check whether the buffer is full.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)