Denial of service attacks ("DoS", hereafter) attempt to make a computer resource unavailable or insufficiently available to its intended users. Such attacks are generally of greater concern for persistent, server-type systems than for desktop applications; nevertheless, DoS denial of service issues can arise for all classes of application.
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Concurrency-Related Denial of Service
Some DoS denial of service attacks operate by attempting to induce concurrency-related problems such as thread deadlock, thread starvation, and race conditions.
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