Tess King, the evil hacker, is purposely sending fragmented ICMP packets to a remote target. The
total size of this ICMP packet once reconstructed is over 65, 536 bytes. From the information
given, what type of attack is Tess King attempting to perform?
A.
Syn flood
B.
Smurf
C.
Ping of death
D.
Fraggle
Explanation:
Reference: http://insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html
C
This is when an IP datagram is received with the “protocol” field in the IP header set to 1
(ICMP),the Last Fragment bit is set,and (IP offset ‘ 8) + (IP data length) >65535.
In other words,the IP offset (which represents the starting position of this fragment in the original
packet,and which is in 8-byte units) plus the rest of the packet is greater than the maximum size
for an IP packet.