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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.

Published

2001-07-30T04:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	microsoft	windows_98	*	Yes
Operating System	microsoft	windows_98se	*	Yes

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200323 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3113 Exploit, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6924 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200323 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3113 Exploit, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6924 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)