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What are giant packets? Or, is Windows NT susceptible to the PING attack?

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What are giant packets? Or, is Windows NT susceptible to the PING attack?

There are mixed reports whether or not NT is vulnerable to this attack. By using ping to send a large packet to certain systems, they might hang or crash.

Windows NT 3.51 seem to be vulnerable to this attack. A knowledge base article, Q132470, describes symptoms in Windows NT 3.51, and also include a pointer to a patch for this problem

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