PUSH and ACK floods

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PUSH floods and ACK floods are denial of service attacks based on the PSH and ACK flags.

Since these flags require additional processing it may be possible to overwhelm a service by setting these flags on numerous requests.

Mitigation[edit]

Proxy filters may drop appropriate packets with these flags set when the system is considered to be under attack.[1][failed verification]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "PUSH and ACK Flood". Archived from the original on 2022-04-07.
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