Weakness · High
CWE-234: Failure to Handle Missing Parameter
What it is
If too few arguments are sent to a function, the function will still pop the expected number of arguments from the stack. Potentially, a variable number of arguments could be exhausted in a function as well.
- Severity (our rating)
- High
- Likelihood of exploit
- High
- Introduced during
- Implementation
- Exploited in the wild
- No CVE in CISA's catalog
What an attacker can do
- Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands (Integrity, Confidentiality, Availability, Access Control)
- Gain Privileges or Assume Identity (Integrity, Confidentiality, Availability, Access Control)
- DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart (Availability)
How to prevent it
Build and Compilation
- This issue can be simply combated with the use of proper build process.
Implementation
- Forward declare all functions. This is the recommended solution. Properly forward declaration of all used functions will result in a compiler error if too few arguments are sent to a function.
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