CompTIA CySA+ (CS0-002) — Question 62

A security analyst received a SIEM alert regarding high levels of memory consumption for a critical system. After several attempts to remediate the issue, the system went down. A root cause analysis revealed a bad actor forced the application to not reclaim memory. This caused the system to be depleted of resources. Which of the following BEST describes this attack?

Answer options

• A. Injection attack
• B. Memory corruption
• C. Denial of service
• D. Array attack

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C, Denial of service, as the attacker caused the application to exhaust memory resources, leading to system downtime. Options A and B do not directly relate to the manipulation of memory reclamation, while D, Array attack, is not a recognized type of attack relevant to this scenario.