An attack on certain UDP-based protocols that leads to packet exchange looping.
The CERT coordination center (computer emergency response team) has issued a warning about a series of vulnerabilities in implementations of various application protocols that use UDP as transport. The vulnerabilities can be exploited to cause denial of service due to the potential looping of packet exchanges between two hosts. For instance, attackers may exhaust the available bandwidth, blocking the operation of network services (for example, […]
