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