CWE-192: Integer Coercion Error

Availability: DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)
Integrity: Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands
Integrity: Other

Description

Integer coercion refers to a set of flaws pertaining to the type casting, extension, or truncation of primitive data types.

Requirements

A language which throws exceptions on ambiguous data casts might be chosen.

Architecture and Design

Design objects and program flow such that multiple or complex casts are unnecessary

Implementation

Ensure that any data type casting that you must used is entirely understood in order to reduce the plausibility of error in use.

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 havin...