Explanation:
A “banana attack” is another particular type of DoS. It involves redirecting outgoing messages from the client back onto the client, preventing outside access, as well as flooding the client with the sent packets.
The Banana attack uses a router to change the destination address of a frame. In the Banana attack:
A compromised router copies the source address on an inbound frame into the destination address.
The outbound frame bounces back to the sender.
This sender is flooded with frames and consumes so many resources that valid service requests can no longer be processed.
The following answers are incorrect:
Brute force attack – Brute force (also known as brute force cracking) is a trial and error method used by application programs to decode encrypted data such as passwords or Data Encryption Standard (DES) keys, through exhaustive effort (using brute force) rather than employing intellectual strategies. Just as a criminal might break into, or “crack” a safe by trying many possible combinations, a brute force cracking application proceeds through all possible combinations of legal characters in sequence. Brute force is considered to be an infallible, although time-consuming, approach.
Buffer overflow – A buffer overflow occurs when a program or process tries to store more data in a buffer (temporary data storage area) than it was intended to hold. Since buffers are created to contain a finite amount of data, the extra information – which has to go somewhere – can overflow into adjacent buffers, corrupting or overwriting the valid data held in them. Although it may occur accidentally through programming error, buffer overflow is an increasingly common type of security attack on data integrity.
Pulsing Zombie – A Dos attack in which a network is subjected to hostile pinging by different attacker computer over an extended time period.
Reference:
CISA review manual 2014 Page number 321