CWE-228Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure

Description

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles input that is not syntactically well-formed with respect to the associated specification.

Common consequences

• Integrity,Availability→Unexpected State,DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart,DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)
  If an input is syntactically invalid, then processing the input could place the system in an unexpected state that could lead to a crash, consume available system resources or other unintended behaviors.

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