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What two are examples of UDP-based attacks? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is B. SQL slammer C. UDP flooding. SQL Slammer and UDP flooding are UDP-based attacks - SQL Slammer propagated entirely over UDP, while UDP flooding directly overwhelms targets with high-volume UDP traffic.
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What two are examples of UDP-based attacks? (Choose two.)
Options
- ASYN flood
- BSQL slammer
- CUDP flooding
- DMAC address flooding
How the community answered
(49 responses)- A6% (3)
- B90% (44)
- D4% (2)
Why each option
SQL Slammer and UDP flooding are UDP-based attacks - SQL Slammer propagated entirely over UDP, while UDP flooding directly overwhelms targets with high-volume UDP traffic.
A SYN flood is a TCP-based attack that exploits the TCP three-way handshake by sending unanswered SYN packets to exhaust server connection tables - it depends entirely on TCP state tracking, not UDP.
SQL Slammer (also known as Sapphire) was a worm that exploited a buffer overflow in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and propagated entirely over UDP port 1434 using small, rapid packets that caused widespread network congestion globally in 2003.
UDP flooding is a volumetric DoS attack that sends large numbers of UDP packets to random ports on a target host, forcing the system to process each datagram and send ICMP port-unreachable responses, consuming both CPU resources and available bandwidth.
MAC address flooding is a Layer 2 attack that overwhelms a switch's CAM table with forged MAC addresses, forcing the switch to broadcast traffic out all ports - it operates at the data link layer and does not use UDP.
Concept tested: UDP-based network attack identification
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/security-center/virus-differences.html
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