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Feast day September 19

S SYN Flood CVE-1999-0116
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Saint SYN Flood, Father of the Church

Hagiography in preparation at the scriptorium.

Technical record

Disclosed on
September 19 1996
CVE
CVE-1999-0116

Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood.

Sources: sei.cmu.edu · nvd.nist.gov

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