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The most common type of denial of service (DoS) attack is the kind used on a network to make a server unreachable by other valid users. The fundamental concept of a network DoS attack is a malicious user flooding enough traffic to a target machine, that it renders the target incapable of keeping up with the volume of requests it is receiving. When the malicious user uses a large number of machines to flood traffic to a single target machine, this is generally known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. These types of attacks are generally beyond the scope of what an application developer can prevent within their own code. This type of “battle of the network pipes” is best mitigated via network architecture solutions.
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A denial of service (DoS) attack is an attempt to make a resource unavailable to its legitimate users.
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Traditionally, denial of service (DoS) attacks have been network based: a malicious user floods a target machine with enough traffic to make it incapable of servicing its intended users. When the attack is launched by leveraging a large number of machines, the attack is typically called a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. In general, network DoS attacks are beyond the scope of what application developers can prevent within their own code. This type of “battle of the network pipes” is best mitigated via network architecture solutions.
  
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There are, however, types of vulnerabilities within applications that can allow a malicious user to make certain functionality or sometimes the entire website unavailable. These problems are caused by bugs in the application, often resulting from malicious or unexpected user input.  This section will focus on application layer attacks against availability that can be launched by just one malicious user on a single machine.
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There are, however, types of vulnerabilities at the application level that can allow a malicious user to make certain functionality or, sometimes, the entire website unavailable. These problems are caused by bugs in the application and often are triggered by malicious or unexpected user input.  This section will focus on application layer attacks against availability that can be launched by just one malicious user on a single machine.
  
 
Here are the DoS testings we will talk about:
 
Here are the DoS testings we will talk about:

Revision as of 06:20, 22 August 2008

OWASP Testing Guide v3 Table of Contents

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4.7 Denial of Service Testing

A denial of service (DoS) attack is an attempt to make a resource unavailable to its legitimate users. Traditionally, denial of service (DoS) attacks have been network based: a malicious user floods a target machine with enough traffic to make it incapable of servicing its intended users. When the attack is launched by leveraging a large number of machines, the attack is typically called a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. In general, network DoS attacks are beyond the scope of what application developers can prevent within their own code. This type of “battle of the network pipes” is best mitigated via network architecture solutions.

There are, however, types of vulnerabilities at the application level that can allow a malicious user to make certain functionality or, sometimes, the entire website unavailable. These problems are caused by bugs in the application and often are triggered by malicious or unexpected user input. This section will focus on application layer attacks against availability that can be launched by just one malicious user on a single machine.

Here are the DoS testings we will talk about:

  1. Testing_for_SQL_Wildcard_Attacks
  2. DoS Testing: Locking Customer Accounts
  3. DoS Testing: Buffer Overflows
  4. DoS Testing: User Specified Object Allocation
  5. DoS Testing: User Input as a Loop Counter
  6. DoS Testing: Writing User Provided Data to Disk
  7. DoS Testing: Failure to Release Resources
  8. DoS Testing: Storing too Much Data in Session


References

Stephen de Vries, Application denial of service (DoS) attacks: http://www.corsaire.com/white-papers/040405-application-level-dos-attacks.pdf


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