CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1201

5.0 MEDIUM Published 1999-02-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-02-06
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

Windows 95 and Windows 98 systems, when configured with multiple TCP/IP stacks bound to the same MAC address, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via a certain ICMP echo (ping) packet, which causes all stacks to send a ping response, aka TCP Chorusing.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 95 • microsoft windows 98

References