CERT C Secure Coding Standard (2008) Chapter 11 - Environment (ENV)
A category in the Common Weakness Enumeration published by The MITRE Corporation.
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 Environment (ENV) chapter of the CERT C Secure Coding Standard (2008).
Weaknesses
Duplicate keys in associative lists can lead to non-unique keys being mistaken for an error.
The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments...
The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes...
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.
The product does not properly return control flow to the proper location after it has completed a task or detected an unusual condition.
The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control.
Concepts
Deprecated or Obsolete
CWE entries in this view (graph) are fully or partially eliminated by following the guidance presented in the book "The CERT C Secure Coding Standard" published in 200...
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