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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…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
FreebsdFreebsd
Versions 3.0, 3.5.1, 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1

References