Meow's CyberAttack - Application/Server Attacks - MemoryBuffer - Memory Leak

• Meow’s CyberAttack - Application/Server Attacks - Memory Buffer Vulnerabilities - Memory Leak
  • Memory Leak

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Meow’s CyberAttack - Application/Server Attacks - Memory Buffer Vulnerabilities - Memory Leak

book: Security+ 7th

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Memory Leak

• a bug in a computer application

• causes the application to consumes more and more memory the longer it runs.

• In extreme cases,

the app consume so much memory that the operating system crashes

.

• typically caused by an application that

reserves memory for short-term use, but never releases it

.

Example

• a web application

• collects user profile data to personalize the browsing experience for users.

• But collects data every time a user accesses a web page and it never releases the memory used to store the data.

• Over time, the web server will run slower and slower and eventually need to be rebooted.