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DAY 24

What's the name of attack that send a massive amounts of packets to cause DOS to target system?

  • Fragmentation
  • Teardrop
  • Zeroday
  • Spoofing
  • Spoon packets

Spoofing (large amount of spoofed SYN-ACK packets for example)

 


Teardrop attacks or TCP/IP fragmentation re-assembly

 


Fragmentation

 


Fragmentation


Teardrop attacks or TCP/IP fragmentation re-assembly

 

Exactly. A teardrop attack is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that involves sending fragmented packets to a target machine. Since the machine receiving such packets cannot reassemble them due to a bug in TCP/IP fragmentation reassembly, the packets overlap one another, crashing the target network device.


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