CVE-2011-4862

N/A
Published: December 25, 2011 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM UTC
10 products affected across 8 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraopenSUSE

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 95%

Description

Buffer overflow in libtelnet/encrypt.c in telnetd in FreeBSD 7.3 through 9.0, MIT Kerberos Version 5 Applications (aka krb5-appl) 1.0.2 and earlier, Heimdal 1.5.1 and earlier, GNU inetutils, and possibly other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long encryption key, as exploited in the wild in December 2011.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

CVSS

Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-120

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