Denial of Service Vulnerability in Intel Pentium Processor: Invalid Operand with Locked CMPXCHG8B Instruction

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Intel Pentium Processor: Invalid Operand with Locked CMPXCHG8B Instruction

CVE-1999-1476 · LOW Severity

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

A bug in Intel Pentium processor (MMX and Overdrive) allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang) in Intel-based operating systems such as Windows NT and Windows 95, via an invalid instruction, aka the "Invalid Operand with Locked CMPXCHG8B Instruction" problem.

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