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Ping of death
Attack on a computer system by pinging a computer
Ping of death
A ping of death is a type of cyberattack on a computer system that involves sending a malformed or otherwise malicious ICMP echo request, a message normally associated with the ping utility, to a computer. In this attack, a host sends hundreds of ICMP echo requests with a packet size that is large or illegal to try to take the receiving host offline or to keep it preoccupied responding with replies. A correctly formed ICMP echo request is typically 56 bytes in size, or 64 bytes when the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) header is considered, and 84 bytes including Internet Protocol (IP) version 4 header. However, any IPv4 packet may be as large as 65,535 bytes. Some computer systems were never designed to properly handle an ICMP echo request packet larger than the maximum packet size because it violates the Internet Protocol. Like other large but well-formed packets, a ping of death is fragmented into groups of 8 octets before transmission. However, when the target computer reassembles...
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