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Rule

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

FIO42-C

2 (medium)

1 (unlikely)

2 (medium)

P4

L3

Examples of vulnerabilities resulting from the violation of this recommendation can be found on the CERT website.

References

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\[[Dowd 06|AA. C References#Dowd 06]\] Chapter 10, "UNIX Processes" (File Descriptor Leaks 582-587)
\[[MITRE 07|AA. C References#MITRE 07]\] UNIX file descriptor leaks
\[[MSDN|AA. C References#MSDN 07]\] Inheritance (Windows)
\[[Openbsd 98|http://seclists.org/bugtraq/1998/Aug/0071.html]\]