CVE-1999-0969 (GCVE-0-1999-0969)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2000-01-04 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 16:55
VLAI
Summary
The Windows NT RPC service allows remote attackers to conduct a denial of service using spoofed malformed RPC packets which generate an error message that is sent to the spoofed host, potentially setting up a loop, aka Snork.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSKB
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
Date Public
1998-09-29 00:00
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