Question

Which of the following BEST describes a DoS fragmentation attack?

answer

A network-level attack focused on consuming all the bandwidth between a target and the internet by using multiple sources to flood traffic.


A transport-level or network-level attack focused on the connection state tables of firewalls, load balancers, and application servers.


An attack in which fake UDP or ICMP packets larger than the MTU are sent to exhaust the processing resources.


An attack focused on exploiting vulnerabilities in protocols and broadcast networks in which intermediary computers amplify small requests into larger payloads to overwhelm a server.

Answer 1

Answer:
An attack in which fake UDP or ICMP packets larger than the MTU are sent to exhaust the processing resources.

Reason: Fragmentation (e.g., teardrop/overlapping fragments) forces the target to reassemble oversized or malformed fragments, consuming CPU/memory and causing crashes or DoS.