The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java (2011) Chapter 10 - Locking (LCK)
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 rules in the Locking (LCK) chapter of The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java (2011).
Weaknesses
The product contains multiple threads or executable segments that are waiting for each other to release a necessary lock, resulting in deadlock.
The product uses double-checked locking to access a resource without the overhead of explicit synchronization, but the locking is insufficient.
The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.
The product does not lock or does not correctly lock a resource when the product must have exclusive access to the resource.
The product utilizes a shared resource in a concurrent manner but does not attempt to synchronize access to the resource.
The product properly checks for the existence of a lock, but the lock can be externally controlled or influenced by an actor that is outside of the intended sphere of ...
Concepts
Deprecated or Obsolete
CWE entries in this view (graph) are fully or partially eliminated by following the guidance presented in the book "The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java" pu...
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