SEI CERT C Coding Standard - Guidelines 50. POSIX (POS)

The product attempts to drop privileges but does not check or incorrectly checks to see if the drop succeeded.

The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.

The product does not terminate or incorrectly terminates a string or array with a null character or equivalent terminator.

The product performs multiple related behaviors, but the behaviors are performed in the wrong order in ways which may produce resultant weaknesses.

The product incorrectly checks a return value from a function, which prevents it from detecting errors or exceptional conditions.

The product checks the status of a file or directory before accessing it, which produces a race condition in which the file can be replaced with a link before the acce...

[PLANNED FOR DEPRECATION. SEE MAINTENANCE NOTES AND CONSIDER CWE-252, CWE-248, OR CWE-1069.] Ignoring exceptions and other error conditions may allow an attacker to in...

The product does not check the return value from a method or function, which can prevent it from detecting unexpected states and conditions.

The product calls a function that can never be guaranteed to work safely.

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