Detalle CWE-364

The product uses a signal handler that introduces a race condition.

Modos de introducción

Implementation

Plataformas aplicables

Lenguaje

Name: C (Sometimes)
Name: C++ (Sometimes)

Consecuencias comunes

Ejemplos observados

Mitigaciones potenciales

Phases : Requirements
Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Phases : Architecture and Design
Design signal handlers to only set flags, rather than perform complex functionality. These flags can then be checked and acted upon within the main program loop.
Phases : Implementation
Only use reentrant functions within signal handlers. Also, use validation to ensure that state is consistent while performing asynchronous actions that affect the state of execution.

Métodos de detección

Automated Static Analysis

Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect "sources" (origins of input) with "sinks" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)

Notas de mapeo de vulnerabilidades

Justificación : This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Comentario : Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

Referencias

REF-18

The CLASP Application Security Process
Secure Software, Inc..
https://cwe.mitre.org/documents/sources/TheCLASPApplicationSecurityProcess.pdf

REF-360

Delivering Signals for Fun and Profit
Michal Zalewski.
https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/signals.txt

REF-361

Race Condition: Signal Handling
https://vulncat.fortify.com/en/detail?id=desc.structural.cpp.race_condition_signal_handling#:~:text=Signal%20handling%20race%20conditions%20can,installed%20to%20handle%20multiple%20signals.s

REF-44

24 Deadly Sins of Software Security
Michael Howard, David LeBlanc, John Viega.

REF-62

The Art of Software Security Assessment
Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh.

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