CVE-1999-0798: Bsdi Bsd OS

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Bsdi Bsd OS: any version
• Freebsd Freebsd: version 6.2 only
• OpenBSD OpenBSD: version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only
• Red Hat Linux: any version
• Sco Internet Faststart: any version
• Sco Openserver: any version
• Sco Unixware: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only

Published 1998-12-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.