CERT C++ Secure Coding Section 03 - Expressions (EXP)
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 rules in the Expressions (EXP) section of the CERT C++ Secure Coding Standard. Since not all rules map to specific weaknesses, this category may be incomplete.
Weaknesses
The product contains a conditional statement with multiple logical expressions in which one of the non-leading expressions may produce side effects. This may lead to a...
A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.
The product accidentally uses the wrong operator, which changes the logic in security-relevant ways.
Concepts
Deprecated or Obsolete
CWE entries in this view (graph) are fully or partially eliminated by following the SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard, as published in 2016. This view is no longer being ac...
See Also
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