WLAN ThreatsManagement Frame DoS Attacks
A spoofed disconnect attack
Occurs when an attacker sends a series of “disassociate” commands to all wireless clients.
Cause all clients to disconnect.
The wireless clients immediately try to re-associate, which creates a burst of traffic.
A CTS flood
An attacker takes advantage of the CSMA/CA contention method to monopolize the bandwidth.
The attacker repeatedly floods Clear to Send (CTS) frames to a bogus STA.
All wireless clients sharing the RF medium receive the CTS and withhold transmissions until the attacker stops transmitting the CTS frames.