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CVE-2000-1184

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-01-09 · updated 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 products

• FreeBSD: 3.0, 3.5.1-stable, 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1

References

• http://www.osvdb.org/6083
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5959
• http://www.osvdb.org/6083
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5959

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