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CVE-2016-1888 (GCVE-0-2016-1888)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-15 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:10
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Summary
The telnetd service in FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 11.0 allows remote attackers to inject arguments to login and bypass authentication via vectors involving a "sequence of memory allocation failures."
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeB… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037399 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2016-12-06 00:00
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