Which of the following attacks may be occurring?

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A cybersecurity analyst is currently investigating a server outage.

The analyst has discovered the following value was entered for the username: 0xbfff601a.

Which of the following attacks may be occurring?
A . Buffer overflow attack
B . Man-in-the-middle attack
C . Smurf attack
D . Format string attack
E . Denial of service attack

Answer: D