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'spank' Denial of Service Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Mitigation
Created
Created
18 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The remote host answers to TCP packets that are coming from a multicast address. This is known as the 'spank' denial of service attack.
Solution
Solution
Contact your operating system vendor for a patch. Filter out multicast addresses (224.0.0.0/4).