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Software developers can avoid the vulnerability or mitigate its ill effects in the following ways:
- A strategy for fault handling should be decided. Consistency in fault handling should be the same with respect to critically similar parts.
- A multi-tiered approach of fault prevention, fault detection and fault reaction should be used.
- System-defined components that assist in uniformity of fault handling should be used when available. For one example, designing a "runtime constraint handler" (as described in ISO/IEC TR 24731-1) permits the application to intercept various erroneous situations and perform one consistent response, such as flushing a previous transaction and re-starting at the next one.
- When there are multiple tasks, a fault-handling policy should be specified whereby a task may
- halt, and keep its resources available for other tasks (perhaps permitting restarting of the faulting task)
- halt, and remove its resources (perhaps to allow other tasks to use the resources so freed, or to allow a recreation of the task)
- halt, and signal the rest of the program to likewise halt.
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