A 32-year-old vulnerability in GNU inetutils Telnetd was recently discovered and assigned CVE-2026-32746. The flaw allows attackers to overflow a global variable via SLC negotiation without proper bounds checking. Although this leads to memory corruption, exploitation is complicated by restrictions on the data format and processing logic that modifies received triplets before storing them in the vulnerable buffer. Despite these challenges, researchers confirmed remote code execution remains possible under certain conditions.
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