CWE-736
Grouping ProhibitedCERT C Secure Coding Standard (2008) Chapter 3 - Declarations and Initialization (DCL)
Status: Obsolete
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).
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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
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