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Newtear 

Newtear is a denial of service (DoS) exploit against machines running on the Microsoft Windows platforms. The Newtear attack is a modified version of the Teardrop attack. Newtear exploits a problem with the way the Microsoft TCP/IP stack handles certain exceptions caused by misformed UDP header information. This situation does not occur in properly formed TCP/IP packets, and must be generated by a program with malicious intent.

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