Intrusion Preventionudp_flood
Description
This indicates the rate of UDP packet to an IP address is above specified threshold level.
UDP is a connectionless protocol and it does not require any connection setup procedure to transfer data. A UDP flood attack involves sending a UDP packet to a random port on the target system. If enough UDP packets are delievered to the target system, the system will go down.
Affected Products
Any unprotected system that is connected to the Internet and provides UDP-based services
Impact
Denial of Service
Recommended Actions
Identify the cause of the abnormal traffic.
Block the abnormal traffic using FortiGate.
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 32594 |
| Created | Jul 25, 2012 |
| Updated | Dec 02, 2014 |
| Risk |
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| Default Action | Unavailable |
| Active | |
| Profile Type | Anomaly |