CWE-740

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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-119 ARR00-C Understand how arrays work

CWE-119 ARR33-C Guarantee that copies are made into storage of sufficient size

CWE-119 ARR34-C Ensure that array types in expressions are compatible

CWE-119 ARR35-C Do not allow loops to iterate beyond the end of an array

CWE-129 ARR00-C Understand how arrays work

CWE-129 ARR30-C Guarantee that array indices are within the valid range

CWE-129 ARR38-C Do not add or subtract an integer to a pointer if the resulting value does not refer to a valid array element

CWE-467 ARR01-C Do not apply the sizeof operator to a pointer when taking the size of an array

CWE-469 ARR36-C Do not subtract or compare two pointers that do not refer to the same array

CWE-469 ARR37-C Do not add or subtract an integer to a pointer to a non-array object

CWE-665 ARR02-C Explicitly specify array bounds, even if implicitly defined by an initializer

CWE-805 ARR33-C Guarantee that copies are made into storage of sufficient size