CVE-2016-1888

high

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."

References

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:36.telnetd.asc

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037399

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-02-15

Updated: 2017-02-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High