CVE-2000-1184 Information

Description

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.

Reference

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:69.telnetd.v1.1.asc http://www.osvdb.org/6083 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5959