SFP Primary Cluster: Faulty Resource Release
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.
This category identifies Software Fault Patterns (SFPs) within the Faulty Resource Release cluster (SFP37).
Weaknesses
The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.
The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls a release function that is not compatible with the function that was originally used to al...
The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls the wrong release function or calls the appropriate release function incorrectly.
Concepts
CWE identifiers in this view are associated with clusters of Software Fault Patterns (SFPs).
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