SEI CERT Perl Coding Standard - Guidelines 50. Miscellaneous (MSC)

A category in the Common Weakness Enumeration published by The MITRE Corporation.

  • Source

    CWE Catalog - 4.14

  • Identifier

    CWE-1186

  • Status

    Stable

Contents

Summary

Categories in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) group entries based on some common characteristic or attribute.

Weaknesses in this category are related to the rules and recommendations in the Miscellaneous (MSC) section of the SEI CERT Perl Coding Standard.

Weaknesses

Assignment to Variable without Use

The variable's value is assigned but never used, making it a dead store.

Dead Code

The product contains dead code, which can never be executed.

Concepts

Weaknesses Addressed by the SEI CERT Perl Coding Standard

CWE entries in this view (graph) are fully or partially eliminated by following the guidance presented in the online wiki that reflects that current rules and recommen...

See Also

  1. SEI CERT Perl Coding Standard : Rule 50. Miscellaneous (MSC)

    The Software Engineering Institute

  2. SEI CERT Perl Coding Standard : Rule 50. Miscellaneous (MSC)

    The Software Engineering Institute

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