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CVE-2011-4862 is a low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 0.0. Exploits are available; patches have been released and should be applied urgently. This is classified as a zero-day vulnerability.
Very high probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
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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.
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| Fedoraproject | Fedora |
| Opensuse | Opensuse |
| Mit | Krb5 Appl |
| Suse | Linux Enterprise Server |
| Heimdal Project | Heimdal |
| Freebsd | Freebsd |
| Gnu | Inetutils |
| Suse | Linux Enterprise Desktop |
| Debian | Debian Linux |
| Suse | Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit |
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