Remotely Stopping Services via Malformed Packet DOS Attacks
¨Land attack
–Sends a spoofed packet to target where source IP and port numbers are same as target IP and port numbers, causing network services of vulnerable target to
die
¨Latierra attack
–Sends multiple Land attack packets to multiple
ports
¨Ping of
Death
–Sends an oversized (> 65 kB) ping packet which causes network TCP/IP stack of vulnerable machines to stop working.
¨Jolt2 attack
–Sends continuous stream of packet fragments, none of which have a fragment offset of zero.
–Target machine’s CPU cycle spent on packet reassembly