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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 15, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2016-1888

CVE-2016-1888

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."

Affected products

5
  • FreeBSD/FreeBSD5 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 4 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

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