MS Windows NT Crash with an Extra Long Username DoS Exploit

Blake 01.04.1997 Verified
Denial of Service Exploits Windows

Exploit Code

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]