CVE-2000-1184: Freebsd

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

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 Freebsd: version 3.0 only; version 3.5.1 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.1.1 only

Published 2001-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.