Ping of Death is an old attack method where an attacker sends an ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) Echo Request (commonly known as a ping) that is larger than the maximum allowable size for an IP packet (which is 65,535 bytes).
The Ping of Death exploit involves sending malformed or oversized ICMP packets to a target system. This exploit specifically manipulates the ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) header field to create packets that exceed the maximum allowable size for IP packets, leading to crashes or other disruptions on the target system.
Therefore, the correct answer is:
A. ICMP header field
As is evident from the description above, the problem has nothing to do with ICMP, which is used only as payload, big enough to exploit the problem. It is a problem in the reassembly process of IP fragments, which may contain any type of protocol (TCP, UDP, IGMP, etc.).
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