[3536] in bugtraq
Suspicion about denial of service attacks possible on IP.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henrik P Johnson)
Tue Oct 22 04:28:56 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:22:28 +0200
Reply-To: Henrik P Johnson <hpj@one.se>
From: Henrik P Johnson <hpj@one.se>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
I was idly reading through Internetworking with TCP/IP yesterday when i=
t hit me
what might be a possible denial of service attack on IP stacks. What wo=
uld
happen if a host was bombarded with faked fragments of large IP package=
s. Would
the stack allocate more and more memory trying to reconstruct the packa=
ges or
do they operate with a fixed/max size limit on memory allocated for IP
defragmentation?
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