Intrusion PreventionUDP.PORT0
Description
This indicates detection of a UDP packet with source/destination port of zero.
A remote attacker may send UDP packets with source/destination port of zero to a target system to verify the existence of the system as a prelude to an attack.
Affected Products
Any unprotected system that is connected to the Internet is vulnerable to the attack.
Impact
Information gathering may assist future attacks.
Recommended Actions
The signature can be set to "DROP" if this type of traffic is against the network policy.
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 12525 |
| Created | Sep 11, 2006 |
| Updated | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Risk |
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| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Linux |
| Affected App | Other |
| Profile Type | Anomaly |