CWE-234

Failure to Handle Missing Parameter

Variant

Incomplete

Description

If too few arguments are sent to a function, the function will still pop the expected number of arguments from the stack. Potentially, a variable number of arguments could be exhausted in a function as well.

Parent Weaknesses (ChildOf)

CWE-233: Improper Handling of Parameter...

Common Consequences

Scope

Integrity

Confidentiality

Availability

Access Control

Impact

Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands, Gain Privileges or Assume Identity

Scope

Availability

Impact

DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart

Potential Mitigations

Build and Compilation

This issue can be simply combated with the use of proper build process.

Implementation

Forward declare all functions. This is the recommended solution. Properly forward declaration of all used functions will result in a compiler error if too few arguments are sent to a function.

CVE-2004-0276

Server earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an HTTP request with a sequence of "%" characters and a missing Host field.

CVE-2002-1488

Chat client allows remote malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PART message with (1) a missing channel or (2) a channel that the user is not in.

CVE-2002-1169

Proxy allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an HTTP request to helpout.exe with a missing HTTP version numbers.

CVE-2000-0521

Web server allows disclosure of CGI source code via an HTTP request without the version number.

CVE-2001-0590

Application server allows a remote attacker to read the source code to arbitrary 'jsp' files via a malformed URL request which does not end with an HTTP protocol specification.

CVE-2003-0239

Chat software allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed GIF89a headers that do not contain a GCT (Global Color Table) or an LCT (Local Color Table) after an Image Descriptor.

CVE-2002-1023

Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an HTTP GET request without a URI.

CVE-2002-1236

CGI crashes when called without any arguments.

CVE-2003-0422

CGI crashes when called without any arguments.

CVE-2002-1531

Crash in HTTP request without a Content-Length field.

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