Original release date: January 17, 2014 | Last revised: August 19, 2015
Systems Affected
Certain UDP protocols have been identified as potential attack vectors:
- DNS
- NTP
- SNMPv2
- NetBIOS
- SSDP
- CharGEN
- QOTD
- BitTorrent
- Kad
- Quake Network Protocol
- Steam Protocol
- RIPv1
- Multicast DNS (mDNS)
- Portmap
Overview
A Distributed Reflective Denial of Service (DRDoS) attack is a form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) that relies on the use of publicly accessible UDP servers, as well as bandwidth amplification factors, to overwhelm a victim system with UDP traffic.
See
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-017A for the complete Description, Impact, Solution (Detection, Mitigation) and References.
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