UDP short header
advICE :Intrusions : 2000207

Summary

A corrupted UDP frame was seen that didn't have the necessary eight bytes of header information.

Details

A UDP header is a minimum of 8-bytes long. However, somebody transmitted data at the system containing a header with fewer than 8-bytes.

The most likely reason for this is an error within the networking infrastructure that is creating mutated traffic.

However, some systems (like BeOS) will crash when they receive such traffic. This could indicate a DoS attempt by a hacker.

parametric information length The length of the header, which will be a value between 0-7

 
Version appeared: 2.1