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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Ping O' Death</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="ping.html" title="ping"/><link rel="next" href="ping-storm.html" title="ping storm"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Ping O' Death</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ping.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="ping-storm.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Ping-O--Death"/><dt xmlns="" id="Ping-O--Death"><b>Ping O' Death</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A notorious <a href="../E/exploit.html"><i class="glossterm">exploit</i></a> that (when first
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discovered) could be easily used to crash a wide variety of machines by
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overrunning size limits in their TCP/IP stacks. First revealed in late
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1996. The open-source Unix community patched its systems to remove the
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vulnerability within days or weeks, the closed-source OS vendors generally
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took months. While the difference in response times repeated a pattern
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familiar from other security incidents, the accompanying glare of
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Web-fueled publicity proved unusually embarrassing to the OS vendors and so
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passed into history and myth. The term is now used to refer to any nudge
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delivered by network wizards over the network that causes bad things to
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happen on the system being nudged. For the full story on the original
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exploit, see <a href="http://www.insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html" target="_top">http://www.insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html</a>. Compare
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<a href="../K/kamikaze-packet.html"><i class="glossterm">kamikaze packet</i></a> and 'Chernobyl packet.'</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ping.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="ping-storm.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ping<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>ping storm</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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