Which of the following vulnerabilities results in an application running extremely slowly due to an abnormally large number of incoming packets?

The correct answer is C. Buffer overflow. An overwhelming volume of packets can fill an application’s input buffers faster than it can process them. Once those buffers are saturated, the program spends excessive time handling overflow conditions (or even overwrites memory), causing dramatic slowdowns and potential…

Submitted by haruto_sh· Mar 6, 2026Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations

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ARace conditions
BCross-site scripting
CBuffer overflow
DSide loading

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An overwhelming volume of packets can fill an application’s input buffers faster than it can process them. Once those buffers are saturated, the program spends excessive time handling overflow conditions (or even overwrites memory), causing dramatic slowdowns and potential instability - classic symptoms of a buffer overflow–style resource exhaustion.

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