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Verifiably in range operations are often preferable to treating out of range values as an error condition because the handling of these errors has been repeatedly shown to cause denial-of-service problems in actual applications. The quintessential example of this is the failure of the Ariane 5 launcher which occurred due to an improperly handled conversion error resulting in the processor being shutdown \[Lions 96\].

Risk Assessment

Rule

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

INT08-A

2 (medium)

2 (probable)

1 (high)

P4

L3

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\[[Lions 96

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|AA. C References#Lions 96]\]