Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 98
CVE-2001-1055
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.
EPSS: 0.223 (97.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows_98
- Microsoft Windows_98se
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)