Ping of Death

nounid 3596·updated May 12, 2026

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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

per-axis with provenance

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

3 surface forms

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

Framework definitions

1 sense across 1 framework

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§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.

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