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CVSSv2

CVE-1999-0224

Published: 23/07/1999 Updated: 17/08/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Denial of service in Windows NT messenger service through a long username.

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microsoft windows nt 4.0

Exploits

You can crash an NT box (possibly W95 too) by sending a very long username in a Winpopup message This is easy to do from UNIX with 'smbclient -U LOTSandLOTSofcrap -M host' # milw0rmcom [1997-04-01] ...