SEI CERT C Coding Standard

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Could detect violations of this rule by looking for signal handlers that themselves call signal(). A violation is reported if the call fails and the handler therefore checks errno. A violation also exists if the signal handler modifies errno without first copying its value elsewhere

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Related Vulnerabilities

Search for vulnerabilities resulting from the violation of this rule on the CERT website.

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CERT C Secure Coding StandardSIG30-C. Call only asynchronous-safe functions within signal handlers
SIG31-C. Do not access shared objects in signal handlers
SEI CERT C++ Coding StandardVOID ERR32-CPP. Do not rely on indeterminate values of errno

Bibliography

[ISO/IEC 9899:2011]Subclause 7.14.1.1, "The signal Function"

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