CVE-1999-0969

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1998-09-29 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-0969, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

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.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-0969

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