PT-1998-1199 · Microsoft · Windows Nt

Published 1998-05-09 · Updated 2016-10-18 · CVE-1999-1361

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows NT versions 3.51 and 4.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically resource exhaustion, by sending a flood of malformed packets. This results in the server slowing down and filling the event logs with error messages.

Recommendations For Windows NT version 3.51, restrict access to the WINS service to minimize the risk of exploitation. For Windows NT version 4.0, consider implementing packet filtering to block malformed packets until a more permanent solution is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-1999-1361

Affected Products

Windows Nt

References · 2

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1361 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221101925891&w=2 · Note