TCP Chorusing: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Windows 95 and Windows 98 Systems

TCP Chorusing: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Windows 95 and Windows 98 Systems

CVE-1999-1201 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Windows 95 and Windows 98 systems, when configured with multiple TCP/IP stacks bound to the same MAC address, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via a certain ICMP echo (ping) packet, which causes all stacks to send a ping response, aka TCP Chorusing.

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