A flaw exists in Windows NT 4.0 Server file management function that can cause a denial of service vulnerability. The affected function can cause memory that it does not own to be freed when a specially crafted request is passed to it causing the flaw. If the application making the request to the function does not carry out any user input validation and allows the specially crafted request to be passed to the function, the function may free memory that it does not own. As a result, the application passing the request could fail.
Impact
This is a denial of service vulnerability. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause an application running on a Windows NT 4.0 Server system to fail.