Ataque a
través de la red. Consiste en enviar paquetes ICMP lo bastante grandes como
para causar un fallo en el sistema receptor.
(D) A denial-of-service
attack that sends an improperly large ICMP echo request packet (a
"ping") with the intent of causing the destination system to fail.
(See: ping sweep, teardrop.) [RFC4949:2007]
An attack that sends an
improperly large ICMP echo request packet (a "ping") with the intent
of overflowing the input buffers of the destination machine and causing it to
crash.
http://www.sans.org/security-resources/glossary-of-terms/
On the Internet, ping of
death is a denial of service (DoS) attack caused by an attacker deliberately
sending an IP packet larger than the 65,536 bytes allowed by the IP protocol.
One of the features of TCP/IP is fragmentation; it allows a single IP packet to
be broken down into smaller segments. In 1996, attackers began to take
advantage of that feature when they found that a packet broken down into
fragments could add up to more than the allowed 65,536 bytes. Many operating
systems didn't know what to do when they received an oversized packet, so they
froze, crashed, or rebooted.
http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/glossary/