diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-connectivity/inetutils/inetutils/CVE-2022-39028.patch b/poky/meta/recipes-connectivity/inetutils/inetutils/CVE-2022-39028.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b07515
--- /dev/null
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-connectivity/inetutils/inetutils/CVE-2022-39028.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+From d52349fa1b6baac77ffa2c74769636aa2ece2ec5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Erik Auerswald <auerswal@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
+Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2022 16:58:16 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] telnetd: Handle early IAC EC or IAC EL receipt
+
+Fix telnetd crash if the first two bytes of a new connection
+are 0xff 0xf7 (IAC EC) or 0xff 0xf8 (IAC EL).
+
+The problem was reported in:
+<https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2022-08-24-2-byte-dos-freebsd-netbsd-telnetd-netkit-telnetd-inetutils-telnetd-kerberos-telnetd.html>.
+
+* NEWS: Mention fix.
+* telnetd/state.c (telrcv): Handle zero slctab[SLC_EC].sptr and
+zero slctab[SLC_EL].sptr.
+
+CVE: CVE-2022-39028
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=fae8263e467380483c28513c0e5fac143e46f94f]
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+---
+ telnetd/state.c | 12 +++++++++---
+ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/telnetd/state.c b/telnetd/state.c
+index ffc6cba..c2d760f 100644
+--- a/telnetd/state.c
++++ b/telnetd/state.c
+@@ -312,15 +312,21 @@ telrcv (void)
+ 	    case EC:
+ 	    case EL:
+ 	      {
+-		cc_t ch;
++		cc_t ch = (cc_t) (_POSIX_VDISABLE);
+ 
+ 		DEBUG (debug_options, 1, printoption ("td: recv IAC", c));
+ 		ptyflush ();	/* half-hearted */
+ 		init_termbuf ();
+ 		if (c == EC)
+-		  ch = *slctab[SLC_EC].sptr;
++		  {
++		    if (slctab[SLC_EC].sptr)
++		      ch = *slctab[SLC_EC].sptr;
++		  }
+ 		else
+-		  ch = *slctab[SLC_EL].sptr;
++		  {
++		    if (slctab[SLC_EL].sptr)
++		      ch = *slctab[SLC_EL].sptr;
++		  }
+ 		if (ch != (cc_t) (_POSIX_VDISABLE))
+ 		  pty_output_byte ((unsigned char) ch);
+ 		break;
+-- 
+2.37.3
+