Denial of Service Vulnerability in telnetd on FreeBSD 4.2 and Earlier

CVE-2000-1184 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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