CWE-228

Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure

Class

Incomplete

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

Parent Weaknesses (ChildOf)

Scope

Integrity

Availability

Impact

Unexpected State, DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart, DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)

Anti-virus product has assert error when line length is non-numeric.

Not Language-Specific

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