CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1055

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2001-07-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-07-30
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 Microsoft Windows network stack allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a flood of malformed ARP request packets with random source IP and MAC addresses, as demonstrated by ARPNuke.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 98 • microsoft windows 98se

References