CVE-1999-1361

Severity

64%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

81%

Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 running WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed packets, which causes the server to slow down and fill the event logs with error messages.

Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 running WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed packets, which causes the server to slow down and fill the event logs with error messages.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft Windows NT

First reported 26 years ago

1998-05-09 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:03:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows NT 3.5.1

3.5.1

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

4.0

References

19980509 coke.c

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