Re: Suspicion about denial of service attacks possible on IP.

[bostic () bsdi com (Keith Bostic)]

> I was idly reading through Internetworking with TCP/IP yesterday when
> it hit me what might be a possible denial of service attack on IP stacks.
> What would happen if a host was bombarded with faked fragments of large
> IP packages. Would the stack allocate more and more memory trying to
> reconstruct the packages or do they operate with a fixed/max size limit
> on memory allocated for IP defragmentation?

Yes.  ;-}

Part of the recent BSD/OS patches were to fix precisely this
type of attack.

--keith