CWE-789Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Description

Common consequences· 1

• Availability — DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory)
  Not controlling memory allocation can result in a request for too much system memory, possibly leading to a crash of the application due to out-of-memory conditions, or the consumption of a large amount of memory on the system.

Potential mitigations· 2

• [Implementation, Architecture and Design]Perform adequate input validation against any value that influences the amount of memory that is allocated. Define an appropriate strategy for handling requests that exceed the limit, and consider supporting a configuration option so that the administrator can extend the amount of memory to be used if necessary.
• [Operation]Run your program using system-provided resource limits for memory. This might still cause the program to crash or exit, but the impact to the rest of the system will be minimized.

Compliance frameworks addressing this (incoming)1

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Related by meaning· 6

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