CVE-1999-1581

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1997-12-23 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1581, 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

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.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1581

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