Ping of Death
nounid
3596·updated Aug 30, 2026verified· unreviewed
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.
MWE
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Classifications
Entity Type
Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
Sensitivity
—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- plural
- Ping of Deaths
- possessive
- Ping of Death's
- pluralpossessive
- Ping of Deaths'
Framework definitions
- §1
- 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.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- 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.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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