CVE-2000-1184

Published Jan 22, 2001 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 1.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
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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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2000-1169 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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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 8, 2024, 5:45 AM
Reserved
Dec 14, 2000, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 9, 2001, 5:00 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 9:53 PM