SYN Flood

nounid 4308·updated May 12, 2026

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A denial of service attack that sends a host more TCP SYN packets (request to synchronize sequence numbers, used when opening a connection) than the protocol implementation can handle.

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Variants

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plural: SYN Floods
possessive: SYN Flood's
pluralpossessive: SYN Floods'

Framework definitions

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§1: A denial of service attack that sends a host more TCP SYN packets (request to synchronize sequence numbers, used when opening a connection) than the protocol implementation can handle.

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