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Throwing an exception that cannot be caught results in abnormal program termination and can lead to denial-of-service attacks.
Rule | Severity | Likelihood | Remediation Cost | Priority | Level |
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ERR58-CPP | Low | Likely | Low | P9 | L2 |
Automated Detection
Tool | Version | Checker | Description | ||||||
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| Axivion Bauhaus Suite |
| CertC++-ERR58 | |||||||
| Clang |
| cert-err58-cpp | Checked by clang-tidy | ||||||
| Parasoft C/C++test |
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| MISRA2008-15_3_1, EXCEPT-18 | ||||
| PRQA QA-C++ | 4.1 | 4634, 4636, 4637, 4639 |
Related Vulnerabilities
Search for vulnerabilities resulting from the violation of this rule on the CERT website.
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This rule is a subset of ERR50-CPP. Do not abruptly terminate the program
| SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard | DCL57-CPP. Do not let exceptions escape from destructors or deallocation functions ERR55-CPP. Honor exception specifications |
Bibliography
| [ISO/IEC 14882-2014] | Subclause 15.4, "Exception Specifications" |
| [Sutter 2000] | Item 8, "Writing Exception-Safe Code—Part 1" |
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