Coding errors that helped Hackers and Intruders

There has been some 25 software coding errors that helped the Cyber criminals helped them to have access the site and accounts to nearly 1.5 million security breaches.

The SANS Institute in Maryland said that in 2008, just two of the errors led to more than 1.5m web site security breaches.

The organizations, which helped making the list, include the US National Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, Microsoft, and Symantec published the document.

"The top 25 list gives developers a minimum set of coding errors that must be eradicated before software is used by customers," the BBC quoted Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer with Veracode.

SANS director, Mason Brown said: "There appears to be broad agreement on the programming errors. Now it is time to fix them. We need to make sure every programmer knows how to write code that is free of the top 25 errors."

While, most of the earlier advice focused on vulnerabilities that could have originated from programming errors, the 25 list examines the actual programming errors themselves.

The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors are:

CWE-116:Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

CWE-89:Failure to Preserve SQL Query Structure

CWE-20:Improper Input Validation

CWE-79:Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure

CWE-78:Failure to Preserve OS Command Structure

CWE-319:Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

CWE-352:Cross-Site Request Forgery

CWE-362:Race Condition

CWE-209:Error Message Information Leak

CWE-119:Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-642:External Control of Critical State Data

CWE-73:External Control of File Name or Path

CWE-665:Improper Initialization

CWE-426:Untrusted Search Path

CWE-94:Failure to Control Generation of Code

CWE-494:Download of Code Without Integrity Check

CWE-404:Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

CWE-682:Incorrect Calculation

CWE-285:Improper Access Control

CWE-327:Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

CWE-259:Hard-Coded Password

CWE-732:Insecure Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

CWE-330:Use of Insufficiently Random Values

CWE-250:Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

CWE-602:Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security (ANI)

This List is produced by National Security Agency (NSA) and 30 other organisations to put forward the flaws.

Credit:Yahoo

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