CVE-1999-1361

Medium CVSS 6.4

Published 1998-05-09 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1361, 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

Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 running WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed packets, which causes the server to slow down and fill the event logs with error messages.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1361

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