CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-1184

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2001-01-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-01-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

telnetd in FreeBSD 4.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by specifying an arbitrary large file in the TERMCAP environmental variable, which consumes resources as the server processes the file.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 3.0 • freebsd freebsd 3.5.1 • freebsd freebsd 4.0 • freebsd freebsd 4.1 • freebsd freebsd 4.1.1

References