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Which of the following Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks use the IP fragmentation mechanism?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution.

Choose two

A Land attack
B SYN flood attack
C Teardrop attack
D Ping of Death attack

Explanation

A Teardrop attack exploits malformed overlapping IP fragments during reassembly. A Ping of Death attack uses an oversized IP datagram, typically delivered as fragments, to exploit vulnerable IP reassembly handling.

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