September 2009
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
9h 58m
English
book
24 Deadly Sins of Software Security: Programming Flaws and How to Fix Them
by Michael Howard, David LeBlanc, John Viega
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SIN 9CATCHING EXCEPTIONS
OVERVIEW OF THE SIN
Exception handling is an often misused feature of programming languages and operating systems. Basically, if something’s gone wrong, and you don’t know exactly how to correct it, then the only safe thing you can do is to exit the application. Trying to do anything else may lead to an unstable application, and an unstable application is typically some amount of work away from being an exploitable application.
Three related sins are Sin 11, “Failure to Handle Errors”; Sin 13, “Race Conditions”; and Sin 12, “Information Leakage.”
CWE REFERENCES
CWE also recognizes catching broad exceptions as an issue.
CWE-396: Declaration of Catch for Generic Exception
AFFECTED LANGUAGES
As is often the case, C and ...
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