CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-1888
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
The telnetd service in FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 11.0 allows remote attackers to inject arguments to login and bypass authentication via vectors involving a "sequence of memory allocation failures."
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 9.3
• freebsd freebsd 10.1
• freebsd freebsd 10.2
• freebsd freebsd 10.3
• freebsd freebsd 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037399 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:36.telnetd.asc Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037399 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:36.telnetd.asc Vendor Advisory