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DHCP, ARP, oh my Anyone know of an exploit that dupes ARP on wind ows 95?


From: "Reeves, Michael (GEAE, Compaq)" <michael.reeves () ae ge com>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:29:19 -0400

Yesterday we had a machine that caused a nasty ARP storm and started
snagging DHCP addresses as fast as it could (stealing addresses). It was
ARPing as if it were every machine on the network. It was a windows 95 box
and was immediately pulled off of the network. Once the machine was rebooted
it stopped. Doing a quick onceover on the machine and looking through the
registry I didn't see anything that seemed suspect. I have seen bad NICs
cause broadcast storms but this is a first for me. If anyone knows of any
exploits or seen anything like this as a hardware failure could ya let me
know.

Thanks,

Mike Reeves
Security Administrator

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