Teardrop
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- Teardrop is also the name of a song by Massive Attack.
In computing, Teardrop is a remote denial-of-service attack (DoS) that affected the Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems, as well as versions of Linux prior to 2.0.32 and 2.1.63.
The Teardrop attack involved sending a flurry of IP fragments with malicious headers to the target machine. A bug in TCP/IP fragmentation re-assembly code caused the fragments to be improperly handled, crashing the operating system as a result.
Long term effects were pretty much non-existent, however any unsaved data would have been lost.
External links
- CERT Advisory (Published: December 16, 1997) (http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-28.html)