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.
Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
---|---|---|---|
Freebsd | Freebsd | 4.1 | 4.1 |
Freebsd | Freebsd | 3.5.1 | 3.5.1 |
Freebsd | Freebsd | 3.0 | 3.0 |
Freebsd | Freebsd | 4.0 | 4.0 |
Freebsd | Freebsd | 4.1.1 | 4.1.1 |