CVE-1999-0179: Microsoft Windows 95

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Windows NT crashes or locks up when a Samba client executes a "cd .." command on a file share.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 95: any version
• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 3.5.1 only

Published 1997-01-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.