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jolt2

Family:

Denial of Service

Category:

flood

Copyright:

This script is Copyright (C) 2003 Michel Arboi

Summary:

Floods target with incorrectly fragmented packets

Version:

$Revision: 1.3 $

Cve_id:

CVE-2000-0482

Bugtraq_id:

1312

Xrefs:

-

Description:

The machine (or a gateway on the network path) crashed when
flooded with incorrectly fragmented packets.
This is known as the 'jolt2' denial of service attack.

An attacker may use this flaw to shut down this server or router,
thus preventing you from working properly.

Solution : contact your operating system vendor for a patch.

Risk factor : High