CVE-1999-1416

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1998-08-23 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1416, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

AnswerBook2 (AB2) web server dwhttpd 3.1a4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via an HTTP POST request with a large content-length.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1416

CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P