ping-of-death

Your mission

Return whether a fragment is safe to reassemble: its end must stay within the 65535 byte IP limit.

today's brief

1996. People discover you can crash almost any machine on the internet by sending it a single malformed ping. The trick is to split the ICMP packet into fragments whose offset and length, once reassembled, add up to more than the 65535 byte maximum an IP packet is ever allowed to be. The target copies them into a buffer sized for the legal maximum, overflows it, and falls over. Windows boxes, printers, routers, all of them went down the same way. Check the reassembled size before it bites.

See it in action

reassembled_ok(0, 1000)

Expected result

Your checklist

For your own tracking. Tests grade your code.

You get offset (where this fragment sits in the packet, in bytes) and len (its length in bytes). Both are non-negative.
The reassembled packet may not exceed 65535 bytes.
Return 1 if offset + len is at most 65535, otherwise return 0.

More examples

reassembled_ok(65000, 1000)

Expected result

reassembled_ok(65535, 0)

Expected result

Constraints

Expected files

reassemble.c

Allowed functions

None. Write every helper yourself.

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Solutions

ping-of-death

Your mission

Return whether a fragment is safe to reassemble: its end must stay within the 65535 byte IP limit.

today's brief

See it in action

reassembled_ok(0, 1000)

Expected result

Your checklist

For your own tracking. Tests grade your code.

You get offset (where this fragment sits in the packet, in bytes) and len (its length in bytes). Both are non-negative.
The reassembled packet may not exceed 65535 bytes.
Return 1 if offset + len is at most 65535, otherwise return 0.

More examples

reassembled_ok(65000, 1000)

Expected result

reassembled_ok(65535, 0)

Expected result

Constraints

Expected files

reassemble.c

Allowed functions

None. Write every helper yourself.

Back to compete

Solutions