Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2009-0641

sys_term.c in telnetd in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE and other 7.x versions deletes dangerous environment variables with a method that was valid only in older FreeBSD distributions, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by passing a crafted environment variable from a telnet client, as demonstrated by an LD_PRELOAD value that references a malicious library.

EPSS: 0.094 (94.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Freebsd — versions 7.0, 7.0-release, 7.0_beta4
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References