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Ping of Death

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An attack that sends an improperly large ICMP echo request packet (a "ping") with the intent of overflowing the input buffers of the destination machine and causing it to crash.

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Classifications

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Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Ping of Deaths
possessive: Ping of Death's
pluralpossessive: Ping of Deaths'

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