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CVE-1999-0179

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1999-09-29 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-17

Description

Windows NT crashes or locks up when a Samba client executes a "cd .." command on a file share.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 95: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Nt: 3.5.1

References

• http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3B%5BLN%5D%3BQ140818
• http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3B%5BLN%5D%3BQ140818

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