A Malicious System Continuously Sends an Extremely Large Number of SYN

question 1138

Multiple Choice

A malicious system continuously sends an extremely large number of SYN packets to a server. Which of the following BEST describes the resulting effect?

• A) The server will be unable to server clients due to lack of bandwidth
• B) The server's firewall will be unable to effectively filter traffic due to the amount of data transmitted
• C) The server will crash when trying to reassemble all the fragmented packets
• D) The server will exhaust its memory maintaining half-open connections

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