Re: DoS Versus Exploit families

I thought others are interested, hence posting this.  I got following answer.

DoS:  Attacks which makes service unavailable for genuine users.
Attacks resulting to  100% CPU utilization, Memory Leaks, hangs etc..
Exploit : Attacks that crash the application/service which enables
attacker to gain access to application/service/machine.

Courtesy:
http://wiki.intoto.com/intoto_wiki/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=102&topics_threshold=0&topics_offset=0&topics_sort_mode=lastPost_desc&topics_find=&forumId=21

Thanks
Ravi

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Ravi Chunduru
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I see that many IPS products (including IntruPro-IPS and Snort)
> categorize rules in different families.  I don't have any confusion on
> many of the families, except for DoS and Exploits.  I am not able to
> understand the difference between DoS and Exploit families.   Can
> anybody shed light on this?
>
> Thanks
> Ravi
>

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