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CVE-2000-1184

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CVE-2000-1184

Published: Jan 22, 2001

Modified: Aug 8, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

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affected
n/a

References

telnetd-termcap-dos(5959)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
6083
vdb-entry
x_refsource_OSVDB

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