CVE-1999-1222 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Netbt.sys within Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. A malicious DNS server can crash the system by responding to a DNS hostname lookup with an IP address of 0.0.0.0. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there any known public exploit tools like Metasploit or ExploitDB entries. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are absent, which is typical for a significant portion of older vulnerabilities.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:*:terminal_server:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.