A teardrop attack is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that involves sending fragmented packets to a target
machine. Since the machine receiving such packets cannot reassemble them due to a bug in TCP/IP
fragmentation reassembly, the packets overlap one another, crashing the target network device. This generally happens on older operating systems such as Windows 3.1x, Windows 95, Windows NT and versions of the Linux kernel prior to 2.1.63.
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