The Microsoft Windows network stack allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a flood of malformed ARP request packets with random source IP and MAC addresses, as demonstrated by ARPNuke.

BID:3113 | URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3113 | BUGTRAQ:20010730 ARPNuke - 80 kb/s kills a whole subnet | URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200323 | XF:win-arp-packet-flooding-dos(6924) | URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6924