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CVE-2016-1888
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-02-15T15:59:00.403 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:42:48.370

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."

Affected products

freebsd — freebsd

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References

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