CVE-2000-1184

FreeBSD <= 4.2 - Denial of Service via TERMCAP Environmental Variable

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5959
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/6083
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_freebsd
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:69.telnetd.v1.1.asc

Scores

EPSS 0.0074
EPSS Percentile 73.1%

Details

Status published
Products (5)
freebsd/freebsd 3.0
freebsd/freebsd 3.5.1 stable
freebsd/freebsd 4.0
freebsd/freebsd 4.1
freebsd/freebsd 4.1.1
Published Jan 09, 2001
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026