CVE-1999-1201 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Windows 95 and Windows 98 systems, when configured with multiple TCP/IP stacks bound to the same MAC address, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via a certain ICMP echo (ping) packet, which causes all stacks to send a ping response, aka TCP Chorusing.

Published: 2004-09-01

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 19.1% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_95::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_98::gold::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.19067.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=91849617221319&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/225
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7542

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Windows 95 Windows 98

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-09-01T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:02:53.884Z

Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-1999-1201

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1999-02-06T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-1999-1201

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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