Vulnerability in Red Hat Linux

CVE-1999-0740

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

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.021 (80.5th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 80.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-1999-0740: held from 0.021 to 0.021.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: -0.000

Affected products

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