Reliance on Machine-Dependent Data Representation

Opis

The code uses a data representation that relies on low-level data representation or constructs that may vary across different processors, physical machines, OSes, or other physical components.

Skutki

• Other

  Reduce Maintainability

  This issue makes it more difficult to maintain and/or port the product, which indirectly affects security by making it more difficult or time-consuming to find and/or fix vulnerabilities. It also might make it easier to introduce vulnerabilities.

Przykłady podatności

• CVE-2025-47153 Chain: build process for JavaScript runtime environment can have inconsistent sizes for off_t (CWE-1102), allowing out-of-bounds access / segmentation fault (CWE-119)

Słabość nadrzędna

• CWE-758 Reliance on Undefined, Unspecified, or Implementation-Defined Behavior

Pokrewna

• CWE-1105 Insufficient Encapsulation of Machine-Dependent Functionality

Kiedy powstaje

• Implementation
• Porting

Dotyczy

Not Language-Specific

Źródła

1. Providing a Framework for Effective Software Quality Assessment — Robert A. Martin, Lawrence H. Shafer, 1996