Is there a Bug Encyclopedia?

Question

Has anyone developed an encyclopedia or wiki of software bugs, either bug types (off-by-one, buffer overflow, etc.) or even just famous bugs (Grace Hopper's moth, the Arianne rocket failure, etc.)?

I was thinking that for tough situations, a cross-referenced encyclopedia of bug types, examples, and symptoms of bugs would help programmers. Especially if one could search by how the bug is manifesting itself (crashing, bad output, memory leaks, etc.).

Answer 1

Wikipedia does have articles for many general and specific bugs, such as all the ones you named:

• off-by-one
• buffer overflow
• Grace Hopper's moth and the moth itself

• the Ariane rocket failure and more detail here

• etc.

Answer 2

This ones kind of funny (if you have a cynical sense of humor):

10 Historical Software Bugs with Extreme Consequences

Answer 3

This one is written from the point of view of testers, but may still help:

http://www.riceconsulting.com/articles/20-most-common-software-problems.htm

Answer 4

I think this is second to none:

Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/

And many more at this location...