Question

________ is an attack technique occurs when excess data gets written to a memory block.

(a) Over buffering

(b) Buffering

(c) Buffer overflow

(d) Memory full

This question was addressed to me by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

Origin of the question is Hacking Terminologies topic in division Cyber Security of Cyber Security

Answer 1

Correct choice is (c) Buffer overflow

The best explanation: Buffer overflow is a flaw that occurs in memory when excessive data is written which makes the buffer allocated to seize.