Which type of network attack involves an attacker sending specially crafted malicious data to an application or system, causing it to crash or become unresponsive? ()

The correct answer is D. Buffer Overflow Attack. A Buffer Overflow Attack occurs when an attacker sends more data than a program's input buffer is allocated to hold. The excess data spills into adjacent memory, corrupting it, which can crash the application, cause undefined behavior, or allow the attacker to execute arbitrary…

Domain 4: Network Security

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ASQL Injection Attack
BMan-in-the-Middle Attack
CDistributed Denial-of-Service Attack
DBuffer Overflow Attack

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Explanation

A Buffer Overflow Attack occurs when an attacker sends more data than a program's input buffer is allocated to hold. The excess data spills into adjacent memory, corrupting it, which can crash the application, cause undefined behavior, or allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code. SQL Injection targets database query logic. A Man-in-the-Middle Attack intercepts communications between two parties. A DDoS attack floods a target with traffic from many sources to exhaust resources - it does not rely on malformed/crafted data payloads.

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#Buffer Overflow#Network Attacks#Vulnerability Exploitation#Application Security

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