During a vulnerability assessment, a cybersecurity analyst is using a debugger to analyze a suspicious binary that crashes under certain conditions. Which debugger feature would be most useful to break the execution at the point of crash to inspect the state of the program?
Breakpoints
Single-stepping
Watchpoints
Core dumps
The correct answer is 'Breakpoints'. Breakpoints allow the analyst to halt the program's execution at specified points, which enables the inspection of the state of the program at those moments. This can be vital in identifying the cause of crashes or other unexpected behaviors in the binary. 'Watchpoints' are used to monitor changes in specific variables, 'Single-stepping' is used for examining code execution line-by-line, and 'Core dumps' provide a snapshot of the program's memory at the time of crash, but do not provide the same level of interactive inspection as breakpoints.
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