CVE-1999-1361

Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 - Denial of Service via Malformed WINS Packet Flood

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 running WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed packets, which causes the server to slow down and fill the event logs with error messages.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221101925891&w=2

Scores

EPSS 0.0860
EPSS Percentile 94.6%

Details

Status published
Products (2)
microsoft/windows_nt 3.5.1
microsoft/windows_nt 4.0
Published May 09, 1998
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026