SFP Secondary Cluster: Failure to Release Resource
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 Failure to Release Resource cluster (SFP14).
Weaknesses
The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.
The product does not properly "clean up" and remove temporary or supporting resources after they have been used.
The product does not properly maintain a reference to a resource that has been allocated, which prevents the resource from being reclaimed.
The product does not properly maintain references to a file descriptor or handle, which prevents that file descriptor/handle from being reclaimed.
The product does not release a file descriptor or handle after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the file descriptor/handle is no longer needed.
The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed.
Concepts
CWE identifiers in this view are associated with clusters of Software Fault Patterns (SFPs).
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