CVEvulnerability
CVE-1999-0288
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 1998-08-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
The WINS server in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 before SP4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process termination) via invalid UDP frames to port 137 (NETBIOS Name Service), as demonstrated via a flood of random packets.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows nt 4.0
References
- http://safenetworks.com/Windows/wins.html safenetworks.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/1233 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://safenetworks.com/Windows/wins.html safenetworks.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/1233 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com