CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 – Question087

A systems administrator reports degraded performance on a virtual server. The administrator increases the
virtual memory allocation, which improves conditions, but performance degrades again after a few days. The
administrator runs an analysis tool and sees the following output:
==3214== timeAttend.exe analyzed
==3214== ERROR SUMMARY:
==3214== malloc/free: in use at exit: 4608 bytes in 18 blocks.
==3214== checked 82116 bytes
==3214== definitely lost: 4608 bytes in 18 blocks.
The administrator terminates the timeAttend.exe, observes system performance over the next few days,
and notices that the system performance does not degrade. Which of the following issues is MOST likely
occurring?


A.
DLL injection
B. API attack
C. Buffer overflow
D. Memory leak

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Reference: https://owasp.org/www-community/vulnerabilities/Memory_leak#:~:text…
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