CWE-459: Incomplete Cleanup

Description

The product does not properly "clean up" and remove temporary or supporting resources after they have been used.

Submission Date :

July 19, 2006, midnight

Modification Date :

2023-06-29 00:00:00+00:00

Organization :

MITRE

Example Vulnerable Codes

Example - 1

Stream resources in a Java application should be released in a finally block, otherwise an exception thrown before the call to close() would result in an unreleased I/O resource. In the example below, the close() method is called in the try block (incorrect).


InputStream is = new FileInputStream(path);byte b[] = new byte[is.available()];is.read(b);is.close();log.error("Something bad happened: " + t.getMessage());try {} catch (Throwable t) {}

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