Ping of Death

I decided to do a video on the Ping of Death because a lot of people just starting out in hacking have heard of it, but dont know exactly want it is. Also, they still believe it is a useful attack today. You can go on Youtube and watch tons of videos of kids making batch files that send pings with random payload sizes; however, this is horribly incorrect. The Ping of Death basically crashes a computer by sending a ping (aka ICMP ECHO request) with a packet greater than 65,535 bytes, and the reason this causes problems is because an IP packets can only be up to 65,535 bytes long. Packets that are bigger than the maximum size are fragmented into smaller packets, which are then reassembled by the receiver. Typically, machines dont process the packet until all fragments have been received. When the machine tries to reassemble the packet it causes an overflow in internal variables, which can lead to a system crash.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Hacking
• internet
• windows
• 95
• infinity
• exists
• full
• disclosure

[mozzmanau]

And how is this relevant today? Especially when most if not all people are behind a NAT firewall built into thier ADSL/Cable Modems?

[Gregorpm]

It's not relevant today. I say that in the beginning. Who still uses Win 95?!

[ReceivedFiles]

Good at the start but no need for the swearing at the end, as as said a little dated.

[Gregorpm]

There was a great need for swearing at the end. Windows 95 tortured me for years!

[Senseij14]

Finally a correct explaination! Thanks for sharing mate!

[raruenify]

Greetz to Bill Gates; How do you like this one? :-)

hehehe

[Inzolity]

@Gregorpm well, i do. in vmware :o)

[just0ten]

bring back staw background !

[vico233]

lol i enjoyed the swearing at the end :P xD

[chadbar]

lol that was hilarious

[ReeallityBytes]

lol - several of my devices - aside from my desktop computers have this number - 65536 - all over them; fucking hilarious lol

[Doeme93]

7:38

lol

[LourdesGerrard]

does this work on windows XP

[siddhesh2515]

thats what i call a great tut. And i lol'ed hard at the last part XD

[fleemanson]

lol i know. But you can lag a site if you have about 5 or 6 machines pointing to it with good internet connection.