CAM (Content Addressable Memory) Table Overflowing is a Layer 2 attack against networking switches in which the CAM table is flooded with bogus MAC addresses, eventually causing the switch to act as a hub, which allows the attacker to sniff traffic they otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
CAM overflow
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