CVE-1999-1581

Windows NT 4.0 - Denial of Service via SNMP OID Decoding

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mskb
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q178381/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8231
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert-vn
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/4923

Scores

EPSS 0.2064
EPSS Percentile 97.3%

Details

Status published
Products (1)
microsoft/windows_nt 4.0 (4 CPE variants)
Published Dec 23, 1997
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026