The discovery of CVE-2026-24061 exposes a long-standing critical weakness in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd). Exploitation of this vulnerability enables remote authentication bypass and full root compromise, putting legacy and misconfigured systems at severe risk. The flaw remained undetected for nearly 11 years, affecting widely deployed GNU InetUtils versions used across Unix and Linux […]
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