CVE-1999-0740: Red Hat Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service on Linux in.telnetd telnet daemon through a malformed TERM environmental variable.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 4.2 only; version 5.2 only; version 6.0 only

Published 1999-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.