Category: DDoS attack
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CVE-2024-45490
The CVE-2024-45490 vulnerability is a security flaw identified in versions of the Expat library (specifically libexpat) prior to version 2.6.3. The vulnerability occurs in the xmlparse.c file, which is responsible for parsing XML data. The issue arises when the function XML_ParseBuffer fails to reject negative lengths during buffer parsing. This oversight can potentially lead to…
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Rapid Reset vulnerability (CVE-2023-44487)
Rapid Reset, the zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol that was exploited, starting on August 2023, to launch the largest DDoS attack ever with 398 million requests per second. (see CISA Alert and CVE-2023-44487 for details)
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Denial-of-Service Attack
Denial-of-Service Attack (DoS Attack): A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the regular functioning of a computer system, network, website, or service by overwhelming it with a flood of traffic or resource requests. The goal of a DoS attack is to make the targeted system or network unavailable to its users, effectively…