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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.).

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I think this is second to none:

Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

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

And many more at this location...

bua
That's not bad, although it focuses on security weaknesses rather than bugs in general.
C. Lawrence Wenham
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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

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

10 Historical Software Bugs with Extreme Consequences

Lucas McCoy