What is a ping of death attack?
by cisspfix on Feb.11, 2010, under Uncategorized
In a ping of death attack, the attacker sends an ICMP packet larger than 65,536 bytes. Since the operating system does not know how to handle a packet larger than 65,536 bytes, it either freezes or crashes at the time of reassembling the packet. However, nowadays the operating systems discard such packets, so the ping of death attack is not applicable under these circumstances.
