Vulnerability Report

CVE-1999-0798

Title: CVE-1999-0798

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-1999-0798.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Dec 04, 1998
Modified Date Apr 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.51%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-1999-0798: Buffer overflow in bootpd on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux systems via a malformed header type.

Impacted Vendors

B
bsdi 1
C
conectiva 1
S
sco 3
O
openbsd 1
F
freebsd 1
N
novell 1
C
caldera 2
R
redhat 1
C
cyrix 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91278867118128&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91278867118128&w=2
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
10.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-1999-0798 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.