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Description
The software does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.
Modes of Introduction:
– Implementation
Likelihood of Exploit: Medium
Related Weaknesses
Consequences
Other: Other
Potential Mitigations
CVE References
- CVE-2021-3011
- virtual interrupt controller in a virtualization product allows crash of host by writing a certain invalid value to a register, which triggers a fatal error instead of returning an error code
- CVE-2008-4302
- Chain: OS kernel does not properly handle a failure of a function call (CWE-755), leading to an unlock of a resource that was not locked (CWE-832), with resultant crash.