Denial of Service Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Network Stack via Malformed ARP Request Packets

CVE-2001-1055 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The Microsoft Windows network stack allows remote attackers 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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