CVE-1999-1127

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Windows NT 4.0 does not properly shut down invalid named pipe RPC connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a series of connections containing malformed data, aka the "Named Pipes Over RPC" vulnerability.

Windows NT 4.0 does not properly shut down invalid named pipe RPC connections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a series of connections containing malformed data, aka the "Named Pipes Over RPC" vulnerability.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 25 years ago

1999-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:29:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

4.0

References

Q195733

Patch, Vendor Advisory

nt-spoolss(523)

MS98-017

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