CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-0740

6.4 MEDIUM Published 1999-08-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-08-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Description

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service on Linux in.telnetd telnet daemon through a malformed TERM environmental variable.

Affected configurations

• redhat linux 4.2 • redhat linux 5.2 • redhat linux 6.0

References