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Risk Assessment

Depending on the inconsistent datacode, this could be very severe. It most cases though, is most likely that only abnormal program termination will occurlead to any number of attacks, many of which could give root access. This is extremely dangerous. For an overview of actual issues, see Zalewski's signal article.

Rule

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

MSCxx-C

3 (high)

3 (likely)

1 (high)

P9

L2

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Wiki Markup
\[[ISO/IEC 03|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 03]\] "Signals and Interrupts"
\[[Open Group 04|AA. C References#Open Group 04]\] [longjmp|http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/longjmp.html]
\[OpenBSD\] [{{signal()}} Man Page|http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=signal]
\[Zalewski\] [http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/signals.txt]