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What is the name for this particular type of attack?

A disgruntled employee has discovered that the company Web server is not protected against a particular buffer overflow vulnerability. The disgruntled employee has created an application to take advantage of this vulnerability and secretly obtain sensitive data from the Web server’s hard disk. This application sends a set of packets to the Web server that causes it to present an unauthenticated terminal with root privileges. What is the name for this particular type of attack?

Which of the following security threats is the attacker exploiting, and what can be done to solve the problem?

A CGI application on the company’s Web server has a bug written into it. This particular bug allows the application to write data into an area of memory that has not been properly allocated to the application. An attacker has created an application that takes advantage of this bug to obtain credit card information. Which of the following security threats is the attacker exploiting, and what can be done to solve the problem?


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