CVE-1999-1581

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-04-21 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows Nt: 4.0, 4.0-sp1, 4.0-sp2, 4.0-sp3

References

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

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