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CVE-2001-1055

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2001-07-30 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The Microsoft Windows network stack allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a flood of malformed ARP request packets with random source IP and MAC addresses, as demonstrated by ARPNuke.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows 98Microsoft Windows 98Se

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References