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CWE

Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure

Description

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles input that is not syntactically well-formed with respect to the associated specification.

Applicable Platforms
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Time Of Introduction

Common Consequences

Scope	Technical Impact	Notes
Integrity Availability	Unexpected state DoS: crash / exit / restart DoS: resource consumption (CPU)	If an input is syntactically invalid, then processing the input could place the system in an unexpected state that could lead to a crash, consume available system resources or other unintended behaviors.

Detection Methods
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Potential Mitigations
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Relationships

Related CWE	Type	View	Chain
CWE-228 ChildOf CWE-896	Category	CWE-888

Demonstrative Examples
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White Box Definitions
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Black Box Definitions
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Taxynomy Mappings

Taxynomy	Id	Name	Fit
PLOVER		Structure and Validity Problems
OWASP Top Ten 2004	A7	Improper Error Handling	CWE_More_Specific

References:
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