5
CVSSv2

CVE-2001-1055

Published: 30/07/2001 Updated: 10/10/2017
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 Microsoft Windows network stack allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a flood of malformed ARP request packets with random source IP and MAC addresses, as demonstrated by ARPNuke.

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microsoft windows 98se

microsoft windows 98

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/3113/info A potential denial of service vulnerability exists in some versions of the Microsoft Windows network stack The problem occurs when a large number of extraneous ARP packets sent to a host running Windows This can cause the system to use all available CPU and memory resources and thus become unre ...