A software bug is a design defect (bug) in computer software. A computer program with many or serious bugs may be described as buggy. The effects of a...
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Perlroth, Nicole (25 September 2014). "Security Experts Expect 'Shellshock' Software Bug in Bash to Be Significant". New York Times. Retrieved 25 September 2014...
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Many software bugs are merely annoying or inconvenient, but some can have extremely serious consequences—either financially or as a threat to human well-being...
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Heisenbug (redirect from Unusual software bug)
In computer programming jargon, a heisenbug is a software bug that seems to disappear or alter its behavior when one attempts to study it. The term is...
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A hardware bug is a bug in computer hardware. It is the hardware counterpart of software bug, a defect in software. A bug is different from a glitch which...
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system Software bug Hardware bug BUG (tag), a computer programming comment tag Pathogen, colloquially Bug (comics), a superhero in Marvel comics Bug (Starship...
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A software regression is a type of software bug where a feature that has worked before stops working. This may happen after changes are applied to the...
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system or defect tracking system is a software application that keeps track of reported software bugs in software development projects. It may be regarded...
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Year 2038 problem (redirect from Year 2038 bug)
bug. The most vulnerable systems are those which are infrequently or never updated, such as legacy and embedded systems. Modern systems and software updates...
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source code of the software. Furthermore, users are encouraged to submit additions to the software, code fixes for the software, bug reports, documentation...
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Year 2000 problem (redirect from Millennium Bug)
by the bug would require anything between $400 million and $600 billion to rectify. A lack of clarity regarding the potential dangers of the bug led some...
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In computer science, data type limitations and software bugs can cause errors in time and date calculation or display. These are most commonly manifestations...
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A bug bounty program is a deal offered by many websites, organizations, and software developers by which individuals can receive recognition and compensation...
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Crash (computing) (redirect from Software crash)
earlier bug, executing invalid machine instructions (an illegal or unauthorized opcode), or triggering an unhandled exception. The original software bug that...
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security bug or security defect is a software bug that can be exploited to gain unauthorized access or privileges on a computer system. Security bugs introduce...
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Jira at some point in time for bug-tracking and project management include Fedora Commons, Hibernate, and the Apache Software Foundation, which uses both...
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Heartbleed (redirect from Heartbleed Bug)
to the OpenSSL team on 1 April 2014 11:09 UTC. The bug was named by an engineer at Synopsys Software Integrity Group, a Finnish cyber security company...
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Computer hardware or software is said to be bug compatible if it exactly replicates an undesirable feature of a previous version. The phrase is found in...
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Malware (redirect from Malicious software)
backdoor application. A backdoor can also be a side effect of a software bug in legitimate software that is exploited by an attacker to gain access to a victim's...
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Patch (computing) (redirect from Bug fix)
intended to be used to modify an existing software resource such as a program or a file, often to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities. A patch may be...
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Nuclear Gandhi (category Software bugs)
Nuclear Gandhi is a video game urban legend purporting the existence of a software bug in the 1991 strategy video game Civilization that would eventually force...
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Fossil is a software configuration management, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development created by D. Richard Hipp...
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Stagefright is the name given to a group of software bugs that affect versions from 2.2 "Froyo" up until 5.1.1 "Lollipop" of the Android operating system...
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UKG (category Human resource management software)
Retrieved 2021-12-17. Bray, Hiawatha (15 December 2021). "Emerging 'Log4j' software bug spawns worldwide worry over cyber attacks - The Boston Globe". The Boston...
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for all scenarios. It cannot find all bugs. Based on the criteria for measuring correctness from an oracle, software testing employs principles and mechanisms...
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Software rot (bit rot, code rot, software erosion, software decay, or software entropy) is the degradation, deterioration, or loss of the use or performance...
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Fuzzing (category Software testing)
security-critical software projects where each previously unreported, distinct bug is reported directly to a bug tracker. The OSS-Fuzz bug tracker automatically...
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Race condition (category Software bugs)
they can finish in a different order than expected, which can cause software bugs due to unanticipated behavior. A race can also occur between two programs...
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