CVE-1999-0740 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-1999-0740?

CVE-1999-0740 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Linux, published on 22 Mar 2000. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service on Linux in.telnetd telnet daemon through a malformed TERM environmental variable.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-0740?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Linux.

How do I fix CVE-1999-0740?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-0740 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-1999-0740 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-0740 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Linux

• CVE-2000-1220 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2003-0248 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-1999-1542 Command injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-1999-1299 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2000-0322 Command injection in n/a Critical 10.0

All Redhat Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-chv2-pxjh-365q.