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Preventing a Solaris 'Ping of Death' attack

Updated 3 Dec 2001 Read time 1 min 52 sec(s) (770 visits).

The Ping of Death attack, first seen in 1996, is achieved using the Internet control message protocol, or ICMP (hence the name ?Ping of Death?).

Published 14 Jun 2005 Read time 13 sec(s) (2369 visits).

By default, Solaris systems are enabled to respond to broadcast ICMP echo packets, which are ping requests.