A Teardrop attack is an older type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack, which affects machines running the Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT operating systems, as well as older Linux versions prior to 2.0.32 and 2.1.63. Teardrop attacks entail sending the target IP fragments containing overlapping content that cannot be reassembled, which in [...]
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