ISC Exam Questions

What attack takes advantage of operating system buffer overflows?

What attack takes advantage of operating system buffer overflows?

A.
Spoofing

B.
Brute force

C.
DoS

D.
Exhaustive

Explanation:
Denial of Service is an attack on the operating system or software using buffer overflows. The result
is that the target is unable to reply to service requests. This is too a large an area of information to
try to cover here, so I will limit my discussion to the types of denial of service (DoS) attacks: