CVE-1999-1581

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Memory leak in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent (snmp.exe) for Windows NT 4.0 before Service Pack 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of SNMP packets with Object Identifiers (OIDs) that cannot be decoded.

Memory leak in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent (snmp.exe) for Windows NT 4.0 before Service Pack 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of SNMP packets with Object Identifiers (OIDs) that cannot be decoded.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft Windows

First reported 27 years ago

1997-12-23 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp1

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp2

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp3

4.0

References

Q178381

VU#4923

US Government Resource

winnt-snmp-oid-memory-leak(8231)

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