CVE-2011-4862
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.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 10.0 Critical
- Status
- Modified - secteam@freebsd.org
- Published
- 2011-12-25
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Affected products
- Debian Linux (Debian)
- Fedora (Fedoraproject)
- Freebsd (Freebsd)
- Inetutils (Gnu)
- Heimdal (Heimdal Project)
- Krb5-appl (Mit)
- Opensuse (Opensuse)
- Linux Enterprise Desktop (Suse)
- Linux Enterprise Server (Suse)
- Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit (Suse)
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-12/0172.html
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=665f1e73cdd9b38e2d2e11b8db9958a315935592
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071627.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071640.html
- http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2011-December/006117.html
- http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2011-December/006118.html
- http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2011-December/006119.html
- http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2011-December/006120.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00015.html
- http://osvdb.org/78020
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46239
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47341
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47348
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47357
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47359
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47373
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47374
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47397
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47399
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47441
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:08.telnetd.asc
- http://security.freebsd.org/patches/SA-11:08/telnetd.patch
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-008.txt
