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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-01-22T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T05:45:37.331Z

Reserved: 2000-12-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2000-1184

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-01-09T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2017-10-10T01:29:31.593

Link: CVE-2000-1184

cve-icon Redhat

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