Poor Logging Practice

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Last revision (mm/dd/yy): 09/30/2008

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Description

Loggers should be declared to be static and final.

It is good programming practice to share a single logger object between all of the instances of a particular class and to use the same logger for the duration of the program.

Risk Factors

TBD

Examples

The following statement errantly declares a non-static logger.

	private final Logger logger =     
				Logger.getLogger(MyClass.class);

Related Attacks

• Attack 1
• Attack 2

Related Vulnerabilities

• Vulnerability 1
• Vulnerabiltiy 2

Related Controls

• Control 1
• Control 2

Related Technical Impacts

• Technical Impact 1
• Technical Impact 2

References

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