Which one of the following instigates a SYN flood attack?
A.
Generating excessive broadcast packets.
B.
Creating a high number of half-open connections.
C.
Inserting repetitive Internet Relay Chat (IRC) messages.
D.
A large number of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) traces.
Explanation:
A SYN attack occurs when an attacker exploits the use of the buffer space during a
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) session initialization handshake.The attacker floods the
target system’s small “in-process” queue with connection requests,but it does not respond when a
target system replies to those requests.This causes the target system to time out while waiting for
the proper response,which makes the system crash or become unusable.