Denial of Service Attacks (7)

• Ping of Death

  • IP packets limited to 64 K bytes (RFC 791)
  • some implementations allow to send larger packets
  • some target hosts will overflow counters and crash NT 3.51 will crash, NT 4.0 will not
  • http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-96.26.ping.html
  • http://www.pp.asu.edu/support/ping-o-death.html

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