SEI CERT C Coding Standard - Guidelines 14. Concurrency (CON)
A category in the Common Weakness Enumeration published by The MITRE Corporation.
Summary
Categories in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) group entries based on some common characteristic or attribute.
Weaknesses in this category are related to the rules and recommendations in the Concurrency (CON) section of the SEI CERT C Coding Standard.
Weaknesses
The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.
Creating and using insecure temporary files can leave application and system data vulnerable to attack.
If two threads of execution use a resource simultaneously, there exists the possibility that resources may be used while invalid, in turn making the state of execution...
The product uses insufficiently random numbers or values in a security context that depends on unpredictable numbers.
The product invokes a potentially dangerous function that could introduce a vulnerability if it is used incorrectly, but the function can also be used safely.
Concepts
CWE entries in this view (graph) are fully or partially eliminated by following the guidance presented in the online wiki that reflects that current rules and recommen...
See Also
- SEI CERT C Coding Standard : Rule 14. Concurrency (CON)
The Software Engineering Institute
- SEI CERT C Coding Standard : Rec 14. Concurrency (CON)
The Software Engineering Institute
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