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CVE-2009-0641

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2009-02-20 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

sys_term.c in telnetd in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE and other 7.x versions deletes dangerous environment variables with a method that was valid only in older FreeBSD distributions, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by passing a crafted environment variable from a telnet client, as demonstrated by an LD_PRELOAD value that references a malicious library.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

CWE-16, CWE-264

References