Alpine: multiple heimdal packages: security update to 1.4-r9 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 401232

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2011-4862)

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=2a47152a439b9747205655ca71541a917bbc6157

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=f81ee55cee797b4203340cebc3f15691ac93faeb

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401232

Version: Revision 1.26

Type: Local

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

Percentile: 99.76

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4862

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/10/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2011

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Linux BSD-derived Telnet Service Encryption Key ID Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4862

BID: 51182