Common Vulnerabilities

A situation in which an application writes to or reads from an area of memory that it is not supposed to access is referred to as:

Buffer overflow

A collection of precompiled functions designed to be used by more than one Microsoft Windows application simultaneously to save system resources is known as:

DLL

In the IT industry, the term "System sprawl" is used to describe poor hardware resource utilization.

False

Which of the following factors pose the greatest risk for embedded systems?

Inadequate vendor support Default configurations

Which of the terms listed below describes a programming error where an application tries to store a numeric value in a variable that is too small to hold it?

Integer overflow

A situation in which an application fails to properly release memory allocated to it or continually requests more memory than it needs is called:

Memory leak

A malfunction in preprogrammed sequential access to a shared resource is described as:

Race condition

An e-commerce store app running on an unpatched web server is an example of:

Vulnerable business process