PT-1999-1540 · Unknown · Counter.Exe

Published 1999-05-19 · Updated 2016-10-18 · CVE-1999-1031

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions counter.exe version 2.70

Description The issue allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, resulting in the application hanging, by providing a long argument.

Recommendations For counter.exe version 2.70, consider restricting the length of arguments passed to the application to prevent the denial of service condition until a fix is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-1999-1031

Affected Products

Counter.Exe

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1031 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=92713790426690&w=2 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/267 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=92707671717292&w=2 · Note