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Exam CISSP Topic 3 Question 572 Discussion

Actual exam question for ISC's CISSP exam
Question #: 572
Topic #: 3
What is called an attack in which an attacker floods a system with connection requests but does not respond when the target system replies to those requests?

Suggested Answer: B Vote an answer

Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
A SYN flood DoS attack where an attacker sends a succession of SYN packets with the goal of overwhelming the victim system so that it is unresponsive to legitimate traffic.
Incorrect Answers:
A: The Ping of Death attack is based upon the use of oversized ICMP packets. It is not based on flooding the system with connection requests.
C: In a smurf attack the attacker sends an ICMP ECHO REQUEST packet, not a connection request, with a spoofed source address to a victim's network broadcast address.
D: In Buffer overflow attack is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer (not sending connection requests), overruns the buffer's boundary and overwrites adjacent memory locations.
References:
Harris, Shon, All In One CISSP Exam Guide, 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2013, p. 549

by Jessie at Sep 03, 2024, 07:35 AM

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