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CVSSv2

CVE-1999-0288

Published: 01/08/1998 Updated: 03/05/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The WINS server in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 before SP4 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (process termination) via invalid UDP frames to port 137 (NETBIOS Name Service), as demonstrated via a flood of random packets.

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microsoft windows nt 4.0

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/298/info NT Workstations and Servers must have unique hostnames if they reside on the same network Should an NT host attempt to use an existing hostname, the second server (with the new duplicate name) will fail to start its workstation and server services (Once the name has been changed to a unique value ...