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document Addition of data-structure sentinel
Overview The accidental addition of a data-structure sentinel can cause serious programming logic problems. Consequences Availability:...
08 May, 2008 Views: 217
document Assigning instead of comparing
Overview In many languages the compare statement is very close in appearance to the assignment statement and are often confused. Consequences ...
08 May, 2008 Views: 240
document Comparing instead of assigning
Overview In many languages, the compare statement is very close in appearance to the assignment statement; they are often confused. Consequences...
08 May, 2008 Views: 250
document Deletion of data-structure sentinel
Overview The accidental deletion of a data structure sentinel can cause serious programing logic problems. Consequences Availability:...
08 May, 2008 Views: 224
document Duplicate key in associative list (alist)
Overview Associative lists should always have unique keys, since having non-unique keys can often be mistaken for an error. Consequences ...
08 May, 2008 Views: 220
document Failure to check whether privileges were dropped successfully
Overview If one changes security privileges, one should ensure that the change was successful. Consequences Authorization: If privileges...
08 May, 2008 Views: 248
document Failure to deallocate data
Overview If memory is allocated and not freed the process could continue to consume more and more memory and eventually crash. Consequences ...
08 May, 2008 Views: 230
document Failure to provide confidentiality for stored data
Overview Non-final public fields should be avoided, if possible, as the code is easily tamperable. Consequences Integrity: The object...
08 May, 2008 Views: 261
document Improper cleanup on thrown exception
Overview Causing a change in flow, due to an exception, can often leave the code in a bad state. Consequences Implementation: The code...
08 May, 2008 Views: 222
document Improper error handling
Overview Sometimes an error is detected, and bad or no action is taken. Consequences Undefined. Exposure period Implementation: This is...
08 May, 2008 Views: 254