Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 4, 1998· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-1999-0798

Description

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

LLM-synthesized narrative grounded in this CVE's description and references.

Bsdi/BSD OS
cpe:2.3:o:bsdi:bsd_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
FreeBSD/FreeBSD
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.2:stable:*:*:*:*:*:*
OpenBSD/OpenBSD2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Linux
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
SCO Group/Internet Faststart
cpe:2.3:o:sco:internet_faststart:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
SCO Group/Openserver
cpe:2.3:o:sco:openserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
SCO Group/Unixware2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:sco:unixware:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:sco:unixware:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:sco:unixware:7.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Carnegie Mellon University/Bootpdllm-fuzzy