CVE-2000-1066: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The getnameinfo function in FreeBSD 4.1.1 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a long DNS hostname.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.1.1 only

Published 2000-12-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.