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Question
A system administrator is troubleshooting a possible denial of service on a sensitive system. The system seems to run properly for a few hours after it is restarted, but then it suddenly stops processing transactions. The system administrator suspects an internal DoS caused by a disgruntled developer who is currently seeking a new job while still working for the company. After looking into various system logs, the system administrator looks at the following output from the main system service responsible for processing incoming transactions. DATE/TIMEPIDCOMMAND%CPUMEM 031020141030002055com.proc10.2920K 031020141100002055com.proc12.35.2M 031020141230002055com.proc22.022M 031020141300002055com.proc33.01.6G 031020141330002055com.proc30.28.0G Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for the DoS?
Options
- AThe system does not implement proper garbage collection.
- BThe system is susceptible to integer overflow.
- CThe system does not implement input validation.
- DThe system does not protect against buffer overflows properly.
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