Question

A program is written to compute the sum of the integers from 1 to 10. The programmer, well trained in reusability and maintainability, writes the program so that it computes the sum of the numbers from k to n. However, a team of security specialists scrutinizes the code. The team certifies that this program properly sets k to 1 and n to 10; therefore, the program is certified as being properly restricted in that it always operates on precisely the range 1 to 10.

Required:
List different ways that this program can be sabotaged so that during execution it computes a different sum, such as 3 to 20.

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

An instance of such program written in python is

isum = 0

for i in range(1,11):

isum = isum + i

print(sum)

One of the ways the program can give a wrong result is when someone alters the program source program before it's complied and executed.

Take for instance.

Changing

isum = 0 to isum = 4

will alter the result by additional 4

Another way is if an outside program or process alters the program execution.