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CVE-2000-1184

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2001-01-09 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References