[e2e] Legal fragment sizes

Bill Fenner fenner at research.att.com
Mon Jun 12 13:05:51 PDT 2006


>I wonder how many stacks we can crash this way!?

The "Ping of Death" DoS attack was based on this - sending a packet with
total size 65538 - so while in 1996 the answer was "lots", I suspect
now the answer may be "few".

  Bill


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