Attempt to Access Child of a Non-structure Pointer

Demonstrations

The following examples help to illustrate the nature of this weakness and describe methods or techniques which can be used to mitigate the risk.

Note that the examples here are by no means exhaustive and any given weakness may have many subtle varieties, each of which may require different detection methods or runtime controls.

Example One

The following example demonstrates the weakness.

struct foo
{
  int i;
}
...
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  *foo = (struct foo *)main;
  foo->i = 2;
  return foo->i;
}

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