Denial of Service Vulnerability in Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 WINS Server

CVE-1999-1361 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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