ECSA v10: EC-Council Certified Security Analyst v10

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VerifiedNetwork Penetration Testing Methodology – External

Rhythm Networks Pvt Ltd is a group of ethical hackers. Their client, Zombie, asked Rhythm Networks to determine how an attacker penetrated its firewall. Rhythm found that the attacker altered the addressing information in the IP packet header and the source-address bits field to bypass the firewall.

Which firewall-bypassing technique did the attacker use?

Explanation

Source routing uses IP-header routing information supplied by the packet source to influence the path a datagram takes through the network. IPv4 defines loose and strict source-routing options for this purpose, making source routing the technique associated with manipulation of packet addressing and routing fields.

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