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CVE-2000-1184

Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—

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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Freebsd — Freebsd

CWEs

References

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