1666 : Multiple Vendor Out Of Band Data DoS (WinNuke)
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
3	509	over 7 years ago	about 1 year ago	1 times	90%

Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
1997-05-07	1997-05-07

Keywords

TCP Port 139

Description

Microsoft Windows and SCO Open Server contain a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when an out-of-band packet is sent to port 139, and will result in loss of availability for the platform.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Microsoft and SCO have released a patch to address this vulnerability. Additionally, it is possible to mitigate this attack by implementing the following workaround: filter all traffic to TCP Port 139.

Products

Microsoft Corporation	Windows	95
		3.11
		NT 4.0
		NT 3.51

SCO Group, Inc.

Open Server

5.0

References

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 168747 179129
ISS X-Force ID: 173
CVE ID: 1999-0153 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 2010
CIAC Advisory: h-57
Packet Storm: http://packetstormsecurity.org/Exploit_Code_Archive/winnuke.c
Keyword: OOB TCP Port 139 WinNuke winnuke.c

Tools & Filters

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Snort	1257

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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