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Title: Windows 95/98 Network File Sharing Vulnerability

Severity: LOW

Description:

A vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft Windows 95/98 accepts authentication for its shares. Windows 95/98 will accept the same hashes within a 15 minute period for authentication of a share. An attacker could modify the samba client to provide the hash intead of a password to authenticate to a Windows 95/98 share.

Affected Products:

  • Microsoft Windows 95
  • Microsoft Windows 98

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