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Comment: Added TrustInSoft Analyzer to the Automated Detection table.

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Tool

Version

Checker

Description

Astrée
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Astrée_V
Astrée_V

Supported, but no explicit checker
CodeSonar
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CodeSonar_V
CodeSonar_V

LANG.MEM.BO
LANG.MEM.BU
BADFUNC.BO.*

Buffer overrun
Buffer underrun
A collection of warning classes that report uses of library functions prone to internal buffer overflows

Compass/ROSE




Coverity
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Coverity_V
Coverity_V

BUFFER_SIZE

BAD_SIZEOF

BAD_ALLOC_STRLEN

BAD_ALLOC_ARITHMETIC

Implemented

Fortify SCA

5.0


Can detect violations of this rule with CERT C Rule Pack

Klocwork

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Klocwork_V
Klocwork_V

ABV.ANY_SIZE_ARRAY
ABV.GENERAL
ABV.ITERATOR
ABV.STACK
ABV.TAINTED
ABV.UNKNOWN_SIZE


LDRA tool suite
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LDRA_V
LDRA_V
64 X, 66 X, 68 X, 69 X, 70 X, 71 X, 79 X
Partially Implmented
Parasoft C/C++test
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Parasoft_V
Parasoft_V

CERT_C-ARR38-a
CERT_C-ARR38-b
CERT_C-ARR38-c
CERT_C-ARR38-d

Avoid overflow when reading from a buffer
Avoid overflow when writing to a buffer
Avoid buffer overflow due to defining incorrect format limits
Avoid overflow due to reading a not zero terminated string

Parasoft Insure++

Runtime analysis
Polyspace Bug Finder

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Polyspace Bug Finder_V
Polyspace Bug Finder_V

Array access out of bounds

Buffer overflow from incorrect string format specifier

Destination buffer overflow in string manipulation

Destination buffer underflow in string manipulation

Invalid use of standard library memory routine

Invalid use of standard library string routine

Mismatch between data length and size

Pointer access out of bounds

Possible misuse of sizeof

Use of tainted pointer

Array index outside bounds during array access

String format specifier causes buffer argument of standard library functions to overflow

Function writes to buffer at offset greater than buffer size

Function writes to buffer at a negative offset from beginning of buffer

Standard library memory function called with invalid arguments

Standard library string function called with invalid arguments

Data size argument is not computed from actual data length

Pointer dereference outside its bounds

Use of sizeof operator can cause unintended results

Pointer from an unsecure source may be NULL or point to unknown memory

PRQA QA-C
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PRQA QA-C_v
PRQA QA-C_v

2845, 2846, 2847, 2848, 2849,

2930, 2932, 2933, 2934

Fully implemented
PRQA QA-C++
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cplusplus:PRQA QA-C++_V
cplusplus:PRQA QA-C++_V

2840, 2841, 2842, 2843, 2844,

2935, 2936, 2937, 2938, 2939

Fully implemented

Splint

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Splint_V
Splint_V



TrustInSoft Analyzer

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TrustInSoft Analyzer_V
TrustInSoft Analyzer_V

out of bounds readPartially verified.

Related Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-2208 results from a violation of this rule. The attacker can supply a value used to determine how much data is copied into a buffer via memcpy(), resulting in a buffer overlow of attacker-controlled data.

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