What Is Teardrop Attack?
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A teardrop attack is a type of denial-of-service attack in which the attacker sends a series of IP fragments with overlapped, oversized payloads to the target system. The target system then attempts to reassemble the fragments, but becomes overwhelmed and crashes due to the large number of fragments. This type of attack exploits a bug in the TCP/IP fragmentation reassembly code of some operating systems.