| M. Bykova, "Statistical analysis of malformed packets and their origins in the modern Internet". March 2002. http://irg.cs.ohiou.edu/papers/. |
....to be malformed are for the TCP flags to be set incorrectly, e.g. two of the SYN, ACK, or FIN, flags set at once; and for the packet length to be different from the actual length. A description of the different ways, intentional and unintentional, that packets have been malformed can be found in [4]. An example of an attack using malformed packets is the attack known as the Ping of Death [5] which sends an ICMP echo request message that is larger than expected. This causes the packet buffer to overflow, usually causing the machine to crash [6] The IP Chains system does not provide a ....
M. Bykova, "Statistical analysis of malformed packets and their origins in the modern Internet". March 2002. http://irg.cs.ohiou.edu/papers/.
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