Re: Stack-based Buffer Overflow in telnet/tn3270.c (settranscom)

Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for the GNU Internet utilities <[email protected]> Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:53:26 +0100

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Erik Auerswald <[email protected]> writes:

> The TN3270 support in GNU Inetutils seems to be thoroughly broken.

Indeed.  Please review this patch that will remove it:

https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/pulls/6

I'm aware it is missing full ChangeLog style entries, plan to add them
after some code review.

/Simon

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