CVE-2016-1888
N/A
Published: February 15, 2017 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:42 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFreeBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
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."
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037399Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
Source: [email protected]
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:36.telnetd.ascQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-287
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