Re: telnet: Handle integer overflow gracefully.

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 04:37:26PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Erik Auerswald <auerswal@unix-ag.uni-kl.de> writes:
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 10:56:30PM -0700, Collin Funk wrote:
> >> 
> >> I've pushed the attached patch removing an integer overflow from telnet.
> >
> > Thanks!  Should this be added to NEWS?
> 
> Thanks Collin, and yes please :)

How about the following?

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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6d7bfef9..6628917e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ when using the --format or --short option. More details in
 ** Inetutils can now be built with C23 compilers.
 Except for when configured to support Kerberos 4.
 
+** telnet: Fix integer overflow handling when using any of the commands
+'send do', 'send dont', 'send will', or 'send wont' with a numerical
+argument.
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.5 (2023-12-29) [stable]
 
 ** ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, uucpd
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Br,
Erik