ECSA v10: EC-Council Certified Security Analyst v10

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VerifiedPenetration Testing Essential Concepts

Alisa is a Network Security Manager at Aidos Cyber Security. During a routine network audit, she sent specially crafted ICMP packet fragments with varying offset values into the network, causing a system crash.

Which attack is Alisa attempting to perform?

Explanation

A ping-of-death attack uses malformed, fragmented ICMP packets whose reassembly produces an invalid oversized packet, potentially causing vulnerable systems to crash.

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