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CVE-1999-1201

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 1999-02-06 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows 98Microsoft Windows 95

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References