Q. The Dirty COW attack is an example of what type of vulnerability?

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Q. In what type of attack does the attacker place more information in a memory location than is allocated for that use?

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Q. Which one of the following operating systems should be avoided on production networks?

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Q. Which one of the following is not a common source of information that may be correlated with vulnerability scan results?

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Q. Tara recently analyzed the results of a vulnerability scan report and found that a vulnerability reported by the scanner did not exist because the system was actually patched as specified. What type of error occurred?

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Q. Kevin recently identified a new security vulnerability and computed its CVSS base score as 6.5. Which risk category would this vulnerability fall into?

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Q. Which one of the following metrics is not included in the calculation of the CVSS exploitability score?

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Q. What is the most recent version of CVSS that is currently available?

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Q. Which one of the following values for the confidentiality, integrity, or availability CVSS metric would indicate the potential for total compromise of a system?

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Q. Which one of the following values for the CVSS attack complexity metric would indicate that the specified attack is simplest to exploit?

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Q. Which one of the CVSS metrics would contain information about the type of user account an attacker must use to execute an attack?

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Q. Tom is reviewing a vulnerability scan report and finds that one of the servers on his network suffers from an internal IP address disclosure vulnerability. What protocol is likely in use on this network that resulted in this vulnerability?

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Q. What is a suggested solution often provided in vulnerability scan reports?

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Q. What does the CVSS base score consider regarding the impact of a vulnerability?

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Q. What should administrators do to protect against virtual machine escape attacks in virtualized infrastructure?

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Q. What causes vulnerabilities in SSL and TLS encryption?

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Q. What should network administrators ensure to patch security issues in network devices?

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Q. What is a common source of vulnerabilities in network devices?

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Q. What type of attacks typically exploit application flaws?

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Q. Name two common sources of vulnerabilities.

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