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Error handling, or exception handling, is the process in application development in which errors are caught and handled at runtime rather than allowing the errors to crash the application.

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Is it a vulnerability to display exception messages in an error page?

In some cases, error messages induce vulnerabilities. In the area of cryptography, the padding oracle attack can recover a secret key by sending altered encrypted messages, and using an "oracle" which …
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