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CWE-198Use of Incorrect Byte Ordering

Category: other

Description

The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not account for byte ordering (e.g. big-endian and little-endian) when processing the input, causing an incorrect number or value to be used.

Common consequences· 1

  • Integrity — Unexpected State

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/198.html

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

CWE
Reliance on Data/Memory Layout
CWE
Unsigned to Signed Conversion Error
CWE
Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input
CWE
Encoding Error
CWE
Buffer Access with Incorrect Length Value
CWE
Improper Input Validation
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.