CVE-1999-1201 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-1999-1201?

CVE-1999-1201 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 98, published on 1 Sep 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-1201?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98.

How do I fix CVE-1999-1201?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1201 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-1999-1201 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-1201 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 98

• CVE-1999-0387 Information disclosure in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2000-0330 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.6
• CVE-1999-0518 Weak cryptography in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2000-0155 Code injection in n/a High 7.2
• CVE-2000-0979 Auth bypass in n/a Medium 6.4

All Microsoft Windows 98 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4j42-4g6h-g8rv.