RE: Smurf ,land attacks

From: Michael Sconzo (msconzo@tamu.edu)
Date: 11/04/02

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From: "Michael Sconzo" <msconzo@tamu.edu>
To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:17:00 -0600

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So, Smurf is a broadcast attack (many computers respond to a spoofed
icmp echo request towards a specific host). Where as a LAND is a
packet sent to host A spoofed to be from host A, causing the host to
get confused.

and IP spoofing is not an attack, it is a method for performing
attacks (ie. smurf and land both use this technique)

A good idea when looking up specific vulnerabilities/attacks check
http://cve.mitre.org, and then just 'google' the cve entry.

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