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CVE-1999-0798

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1998-12-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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

Affected products

• Bsdi Bsd Os: all versions
• FreeBSD: 6.2-stable
• OpenBSD: 2.3, 2.4
• RedHat Linux: all versions
• Sco Internet Faststart: all versions
• Sco Openserver: all versions
• Sco Unixware: 7.0, 7.0.1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91278867118128&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91278867118128&w=2

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