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SYN Flood

nounid 4308·updated Aug 30, 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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Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

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Information Class

—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

3 surface forms

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

Framework definitions

2 senses across 2 frameworks

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →

§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.

Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →

§1 · legacy_primary: 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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