CWE-742

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Relationship

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

CWE-20 MEM10-C Define and use a pointer validation function

CWE-119 MEM09-C Do not assume memory allocation routines initialize memory

CWE-128 MEM07-C Ensure that the arguments to calloc(), when multiplied, can be represented as a size_t

CWE-131 MEM35-C Allocate sufficient memory for an object

CWE-190 MEM07-C Ensure that the arguments to calloc(), when multiplied, can be represented as a size_t

CWE-190 MEM35-C Allocate sufficient memory for an object

CWE-226 MEM03-C Clear sensitive information stored in reusable resources returned for reuse

CWE-244 MEM03-C Clear sensitive information stored in reusable resources returned for reuse

CWE-252 MEM32-C Detect and handle memory allocation errors

CWE-415 MEM00-C Allocate and free memory in the same module, at the same level of abstraction

CWE-415 MEM01-C Store a new value in pointers immediately after free()

CWE-415 MEM31-C Free dynamically allocated memory exactly once

CWE-416 MEM00-C Allocate and free memory in the same module, at the same level of abstraction

CWE-416 MEM01-C Store a new value in pointers immediately after free()

CWE-416 MEM30-C Do not access freed memory

CWE-476 MEM32-C Detect and handle memory allocation errors

CWE-528 MEM06-C Ensure that sensitive data is not written out to disk

CWE-590 MEM34-C Only free memory allocated dynamically

CWE-591 MEM06-C Ensure that sensitive data is not written out to disk

CWE-628 MEM08-C Use realloc() only to resize dynamically allocated arrays

CWE-665 MEM09-C Do not assume memory allocation routines initialize memory

CWE-687 MEM04-C Do not perform zero length allocations

CWE-754 MEM32-C Detect and handle memory allocation errors