{"@ID": "736", "@Name": "CERT C Secure Coding Standard (2008) Chapter 3 - Declarations and Initialization (DCL)", "@Status": "Obsolete", "Summary": "Weaknesses in this category are related to the rules and recommendations in the Declarations and Initialization (DCL) chapter of the CERT C Secure Coding Standard (2008).", "Relationships": {"Has_Member": [{"@CWE_ID": "547", "@View_ID": "734"}, {"@CWE_ID": "628", "@View_ID": "734"}, {"@CWE_ID": "686", "@View_ID": "734"}]}, "References": {"Reference": {"@External_Reference_ID": "REF-597"}}, "Mapping_Notes": {"Usage": "Prohibited", "Rationale": "This entry is a Grouping. Using groupings for mapping has been discouraged since 2019. They are informal organizational groupings of weaknesses that can help CWE users with data aggregation, navigation, and browsing. However, they are not weaknesses in themselves.", "Comments": "See member weaknesses of this category.", "Reasons": {"Reason": {"@Type": "Grouping"}}}, "Notes": {"Note": {"@Type": "Relationship", "xhtml:p": "In the 2008 version of the CERT C Secure Coding standard, the following rules were mapped to the following CWE IDs:", "xhtml:ul": {"xhtml:li": ["CWE-547 DCL06-C Use meaningful symbolic constants to represent literal values in program logic", "CWE-628 DCL10-C Maintain the contract between the writer and caller of variadic functions", "CWE-686 DCL35-C Do not invoke a function using a type that does not match the function definition"]}, "#text_blocks": ["In the 2008 version of the CERT C Secure Coding standard, the following rules were mapped to the following CWE IDs:", "CWE-547 DCL06-C Use meaningful symbolic constants to represent literal values in program logic", "CWE-628 DCL10-C Maintain the contract between the writer and caller of variadic functions", "CWE-686 DCL35-C Do not invoke a function using a type that does not match the function definition"]}}, "Content_History": {"Submission": {"Submission_Name": "CWE Content Team", "Submission_Organization": "MITRE", "Submission_Date": "2008-11-24", "Submission_Version": "1.1", "Submission_ReleaseDate": "2008-11-24"}, "Modification": [{"Modification_Name": "CWE Content Team", "Modification_Organization": "MITRE", "Modification_Date": "2017-11-08", "Modification_Version": "3.0", "Modification_ReleaseDate": "2017-11-08", "Modification_Comment": "updated Description, Name, Relationship_Notes"}, {"Modification_Name": "CWE Content Team", "Modification_Organization": "MITRE", "Modification_Date": "2019-01-03", "Modification_Version": "3.2", "Modification_ReleaseDate": "2019-01-03", "Modification_Comment": "updated Description, Name, References"}, {"Modification_Name": "CWE Content Team", "Modification_Organization": "MITRE", "Modification_Date": "2023-04-27", "Modification_Version": "4.11", "Modification_ReleaseDate": "2023-04-27", "Modification_Comment": "updated Mapping_Notes"}, {"Modification_Name": "CWE Content Team", "Modification_Organization": "MITRE", "Modification_Date": "2023-06-29", "Modification_Version": "4.12", "Modification_ReleaseDate": "2023-06-29", "Modification_Comment": "updated Mapping_Notes"}, {"Modification_Name": "CWE Content Team", "Modification_Organization": "MITRE", "Modification_Date": "2026-10-28", "Modification_Version": "5.0", "Modification_ReleaseDate": "2026-10-28", "Modification_Comment": "updated Mapping_Notes, Type"}], "Previous_Entry_Name": [{"@Date": "2017-11-08", "#text": "CERT C Secure Coding Section 02 - Declarations and Initialization (DCL)"}, {"@Date": "2019-01-03", "#text": "CERT C Secure Coding (2008 Version) Section 02 - Declarations and Initialization (DCL)"}]}, "entry_type": "Grouping"}