CVE-2001-0469: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

rwho daemon rwhod in FreeBSD 4.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed packets with a short length.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: up to and including 4.2

Published 2001-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.