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Freeing or reallocating memory that was not dynamically allocated could lead to abnormal termination and denial-of-service attacksarbitrary code execution if that memory is reused by malloc.
Rule | Severity | Likelihood | Remediation Cost | Priority | Level |
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MEM34-C | low high | unlikely likely | medium | P2 P18 | L3 L1 |
Automated Detection
The Coverity Prevent BAD_FREE checker identifies calls to free() where the argument is a pointer to a function or an array. Coverity Prevent cannot discover all violations of this rule, so further verification is necessary.
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