Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-737

Grouping Prohibited

CERT C Secure Coding Standard (2008) Chapter 4 - Expressions (EXP)

Status: Obsolete

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Weaknesses in this category are related to the rules and recommendations in the Expressions (EXP) chapter of the CERT C Secure Coding Standard (2008).

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Relationships and members
Has Member: CWE-467 · View CWE-734
Has Member: CWE-468 · View CWE-734
Has Member: CWE-476 · View CWE-734
Has Member: CWE-628 · View CWE-734
Has Member: CWE-704 · View CWE-734
Has Member: CWE-783 · View CWE-734
Notes

Relationship

In the 2008 version of the CERT C Secure Coding standard, the following rules were mapped to the following CWE IDs:

CWE-467 EXP01-C Do not take the size of a pointer to determine the size of the pointed-to type

CWE-468 EXP08-C Ensure pointer arithmetic is used correctly

CWE-476 EXP34-C Ensure a null pointer is not dereferenced

CWE-628 EXP37-C Call functions with the arguments intended by the API

CWE-704 EXP05-C Do not cast away a const qualification

CWE-783 EXP00-C Use parentheses for precedence of operation

Content history
Submission: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2008-11-24 · CWE 1.1
Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2009-07-27 · CWE 1.5

updated Relationships

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2017-11-08 · CWE 3.0

updated Description, Name, Relationship_Notes

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2019-01-03 · CWE 3.2

updated Description, Name, References

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2023-04-27 · CWE 4.11

updated Mapping_Notes

Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2023-06-29 · CWE 4.12

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Modification: CWE Content Team · MITRE · 2026-10-28 · CWE 5.0

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