Data flood

Risk Level: Medium risk vulnerability  Medium

Check or Attack Name: dataflood

Platforms: Any
Description:

Sending a large amount of data to a system can be used as a denial of service attack. This attack exhausts available computer resources so that the system cannot respond to other user requests.

Remedy:

As of December 1998, there is currently no fix for the Data Flood vulnerability.

References:

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