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The CERT ® C Coding Standard: 98 Rules for Developing Safe, Reliable, and Secure Systems, Second Edition
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The CERT ® C Coding Standard: 98 Rules for Developing Safe, Reliable, and Secure Systems, Second Edition

by Robert C. Seacord
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
14h 45m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from The CERT ® C Coding Standard: 98 Rules for Developing Safe, Reliable, and Secure Systems, Second Edition

Chapter 8. Memory Management (MEM)

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Risk Assessment Summary

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Image MEM30-C. Do not access freed memory

Evaluating pointers into memory that have been deallocated by a memory management function, including dereferencing, acting as an operand of an arithmetic operation, type casting, or using the pointer as the right-hand side of an assignment, is undefined behavior. Pointers to memory that have been deallocated are referred to as dangling ...

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