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Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool?


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:10:30 -0400

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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