First published: Tue Jan 09 2001(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
FreeBSD FreeBSD | =3.0 | |
FreeBSD FreeBSD | =3.5.1-stable | |
FreeBSD FreeBSD | =4.0 | |
FreeBSD FreeBSD | =4.1 | |
FreeBSD FreeBSD | =4.1.1 |
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