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Assuming infinite heap space can result in denial of service.
Rule | Severity | Likelihood | Remediation Cost | Priority | Level |
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MSC05-J | Low | Probable | Medium | P4 | L3 |
Related Vulnerabilities
The Apache Geronimo bug described by GERONIMO-4224 results in an OutOfMemoryError exception thrown by the WebAccessLogViewer when the access log file size is too large.
Automated Detection
| Tool | Version | Checker | Description | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CodeSonar |
| JAVA.ALLOC.LEAK.NOTSTORED | Closeable Not Stored (Java) |
Related Guidelines
Resource Exhaustion [XZP] | |
CWE-400, Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ("Resource Exhaustion") |
Bibliography
[API 2014] | |
Java—The Java Application Launcher, Syntax for Increasing the Heap Size | |
| [Oracle 2015] | Tuning the Java Runtime System |
[SDN 2008] | |
[Sun 2006] | Garbage Collection Ergonomics, Default Values for the Initial and Maximum Heap Size |
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