What resources does a SYN flooding attack try to exhaust?

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In a SYN flooding denial of service attack, what resource is the attacker trying to exhaust? RAM? CPU?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN_flood You need to know how TCP works to answer this question — , Dec 15 '17 at 00:27
Possible duplicate of What is a DoS Attack and how does it differ from a DDoS attack?
See also: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4667/how-do-dos-ddos-work — Polynomial, Dec 15 '17 at 00:51
Please do at least some research before posting questions. You don't even have to scroll down the wikipedia article to get an answer. — Marc, Dec 15 '17 at 00:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 15 '17 at 14:29

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Depends...

answered Dec 15 '17 at 14:29

Jan Pol

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