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WinCOM LPD for NT memory drain
Vulnerability

    lpd

Affected

    WinCOM LPD V1.00.90 for Windows NT

Description

    Following is based  on a VIGILANTE-2000013  Security Advisory.   A
    continuos stream of LPD options, sent to the LPD port (default TCP
    port 515) on the host running WinCOM, will eventually consume  all
    the memory on that host.

Solution

    The vendor was contacted on the  8th of September and the bug  was
    verified by them on the 19th of September.  There is currently  no
    known release date  for a fix,  but it will  be fixed in  a future
    release.

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