Category: SEI CERT C Coding Standard - Guidelines 07. Characters and Strings (STR)
Stable
Summary
Weaknesses in this category are related to the rules and recommendations in the Characters and Strings (STR) section of the SEI CERT C Coding Standard.
Membership
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CWE-119 | Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer | The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data. |
| CWE-120 | Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') | The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer. |
| CWE-121 | Stack-based Buffer Overflow | A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). |
| CWE-122 | Heap-based Buffer Overflow | A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). |
| CWE-123 | Write-what-where Condition | Any condition where the attacker has the ability to write an arbitrary value to an arbitrary location, often as the result of a buffer overflow. |
| CWE-125 | Out-of-bounds Read | The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. |
| CWE-170 | Improper Null Termination | The product does not terminate or incorrectly terminates a string or array with a null character or equivalent terminator. |
| CWE-676 | Use of Potentially Dangerous Function | The product invokes a potentially dangerous function that could introduce a vulnerability if it is used incorrectly, but the function can also be used safely. |
| CWE-704 | Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast | The product does not correctly convert an object, resource, or structure from one type to a different type. |
| CWE-1154 | Weaknesses Addressed by the SEI CERT C 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 recommendations of the SEI CERT C Coding Standard. |
Vulnerability Mapping Notes
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Rationale:
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