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Violating the ODR causes undefined behavior, which can result in exploits as well as denial-of-service attacks. As shown in "Support for Whole-Program Analysis and the Verification of the One-Definition Rule in C++" [Quinlan 06], failing to enforce the ODR enables a virtual function pointer attack known as the VPTR exploit. In this exploit, an object's virtual function table is corrupted so that calling a virtual function on the object results in malicious code being executed. See the paper by Quinlan and colleagues for more details. However, note that to introduce the malicious class, the attacker must have access to the system building the code.
Rule | Severity | Likelihood | Remediation Cost | Priority | Level |
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DCL60-CPP | High | Unlikely | High | P3 | L3 |
Automated Detection
Tool | Version | Checker | Description | ||||||
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| Axivion Bauhaus Suite |
| CertC++-DCL60 | |||||||
| CodeSonar |
| LANG.STRUCT.DEF.FDH | Function defined in header file Object defined in header file | ||||||
| LDRA tool suite |
| 286 S, 287 S | Fully implemented | ||||||
| PRQA QA-C++ |
| 1067 1509 |
Related Vulnerabilities
Search for vulnerabilities resulting from the violation of this rule on the CERT website.
Bibliography
| [ISO/IEC 14882-2014] | Subclause 3.2, "One Definition Rule" |
| [Quinlan 2006] |
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