CVE-1999-1581

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 v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM

5.0^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

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

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q178381/
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/4923	US Government Resource
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8231
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q178381/
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/4923	US Government Resource
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8231

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp1::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp2::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:sp3::::::

History

No history.

Information

Published : 1997-12-23 05:00

Updated : 2025-04-03 01:03

NVD link : CVE-1999-1581

Mitre link : CVE-1999-1581

CVE.ORG link : CVE-1999-1581

JSON object : View

Products Affected

microsoft

windows_nt

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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