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HistoryDec 25, 2011 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2011-4862

2011-12-2500:00:00
ubuntu.com
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10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.972 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.8%

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.

Notes

Author Note
jdstrand from DSA: “Kerberos support for telnetd contains a pre-authentication buffer overflow”. did not check if this is protected via stack-protector yet
mdeslaur all affected code is in universe binaries

10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.972 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.8%