The RARP reception handler verifies that the packet is well formed, but fails to verify that the node has an ongoing RARP-transaction matching the received packet. An attacker residing on the LAN can send reverse-ARP responses to the victim system to assign unicast IPv4 addresses to the target. The action will not cause any direct harm more than increased usage of RAM. However, the vulnerability may indirectly cause a network connectivity issue for the system on the LAN if the assigned IP addresses collide with other machines.