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CVE-2000-1184

telnetd in FreeBSD 4.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers...

5.0 Medium

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.

Exploit likelihood

1.66%Up 0.5 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 5.0

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.

Record
CVE-2000-1184
CVSS 2.0
5.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

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.

Record
CVE-2000-1184
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2000-1169 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2000-1169
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-xx57-frcf-rw2h No score

telnetd in FreeBSD 4.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers...

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.

Record
GHSA-xx57-frcf-rw2h
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2000-1184 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) in Freebsd, published January 9, 2001. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.66%, the 76th percentile. No source names a fixed version.

References

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