A security analyst received a SIEM alert regarding high levels of memory consumption for a critical system. After several attempts to remediate the issue, the system went down. A root cause analysis revealed a bad actor forced the application to not reclaim memory. This caused the system to be depleted of resources.

Which of the following BEST describes this attack?

A. Injection attack

B. Memory corruption

C. Denial of service
D. Array attack

Reference: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/definition/memory-corruption