Linked by David Adams on Tue 7th Oct 2008 15:20 UTC
"Denial of Service attacks arenât new, yet they persist in being effective methods of denying access to resources on the Internet. Now meet Sockstress, the newest version of DoS attacks and potentially the most devastating of the bunch."
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2007-05-12
This sounds like such a simply-structured attack that I wouldn't mind betting that OpenBSD took care of this about five years ago.
Given that apparently all that is required to foil it is to block the offending IP address, pf would look at an "attack" like this and say "come on now, gimme something hard to do...."