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CVE-2011-4862observed exploitation

CVE-2011-4862

82Vexday Risk Score

Patch now. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck and has a working public exploit.

ssvc Actepss 95%
from disclosure to weapon1 days
Published on NVDDec 25
1st PoC+1d
metasploitDec 23
VulnCheckDec 23
exploitation probability
95%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
8 public exploit(s)
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 products
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