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List: bugtraq
Subject: Re: Suspicion denied
From: Nathan Lawson <nlawson () kdat ! csc ! calpoly ! edu>
Date: 1996-10-22 7:47:09
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Henrik said:
> I was idly reading through Internetworking with TCP/IP yesterday when it
> hit me what might be a possible denial of service attack on IP stacks. What
> would happen if a host was bombarded with faked fragments of large IP
> packages. Would
> the stack allocate more and more memory trying to reconstruct the packages or
> do they operate with a fixed/max size limit on memory allocated for IP
> defragmentation?
No. At the very least, ip_drain() is called when the kernel needs more memory
and its first task is to drop all fragments.
General request: Please desist with the silly ping ramblings.
--
Nate Lawson "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of
CPE Senior evil to one who is striking at the root."
CSL Admin -- Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden', 1854
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