Microsoft Windows NT - Crash with an Extra Long 'Username' Denial of Service

Author: Fyodor
type: dos
platform: windows
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date_added: 1997-03-31  
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verified: 1  
codes: OSVDB-11473;CVE-1999-0224  
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raw file: 329.txt  

You can crash an NT box (possibly W95 too) by sending a very long username in a Winpopup message. This is easy to do from UNIX with 'smbclient -U LOTSandLOTSofcrap -M host'.

# milw0rm.com [1997-04-01]