CVE-1999-0798

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in bootpd on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux systems via a malformed header type.

Buffer overflow in bootpd on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux systems via a malformed header type.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 26 years ago

1998-12-04 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 01:59:00

Affected Software

OpenBSD 2.3

2.3

OpenBSD 2.4

2.4

Red Hat Linux

References

19981204 bootpd remote vulnerability

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