chargen is the new DDoS tool?

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Tue Jun 11 20:10:30 UTC 2013


On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:38:45 -0400, "David Edelman" said:
> I can just see someone spoofing a packet from victimA port 7/UDP to victimB
> port 19/UDP.

For a while, it was possible to spoof packets to create a TCP connection from a
machine's chargen port to its own discard port and walk away while it burned to
the ground.  Fun times.

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