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Question #: 19
Topic #: 5
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Which of the following network attacks takes advantage of weaknesses in the fragment reassembly functionality of the TCP/IP protocol stack?

  • A. Teardrop
  • B. SYN flood
  • C. Smurf attack
  • D. Ping of death
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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️
by melante at April 18, 2021, 2:20 p.m.

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Joker20
8 months, 1 week ago
A teardrop attack is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that involves sending fragmented packets to a target machine. Since the machine receiving such packets cannot reassemble them due to a bug in TCP/IP fragmentation reassembly, the packets overlap one another, crashing the target network device.
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melante
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Why isn't D also correct?
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