Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2000-1184

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.

EPSS: 0.017 (74.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Freebsd — versions 3.0, 3.5.1, 4.0
  • N/a — versions n/a

References