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What are the vulnerabilities of UDP?
UDP's lack of a verification mechanism and end-to-end connections makes it vulnerable to a number of DDoS attacks. Attackers can spoof packets with arbitrary IP addresses, and reach the application directly with those packets.
What is more secure TCP or UDP?
TCP is more reliable than UDP. It provides error-checking and ensures data packets are delivered to the communicating application in the correct order. TCP is slightly more secure than UDP. It is harder to insert malicious data as TCP tracks all data packets.
Are UDP ports vulnerable?
When it comes to UDP and security, it all depends on the UDP service that is running on a port and how secure the service is. The service could be vulnerable to hacking if the service has an exploit or a bug in it that allows remote access, overflow, etc.
