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Rule

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

MEM31-C

high

probable

medium

P12

L1

Automated Detection

Tool

Version

Checker

Description

Section

LDRA tool suite

Include Page
c:LDRA_V
c:LDRA_V

 

 

Section

Fortify SCA

Section

V. 5.0

Section

Double Free

 

Section

Splint

Include Page
c:Splint_V
c:Splint_V

 

 

Section

Coverity Prevent

Include Page
c:Coverity_V
c:Coverity_V
Section

RESOURCE_LEAK

Section

finds resource leaks from variables that go out of scope while owning a resource

Section

Coverity Prevent

Include Page
c:Coverity_V
c:Coverity_V
Section

USE_AFTER_FREE

Section

can find the instances where a freed memory is freed again. Coverity Prevent cannot discover all violations of this rule so further verification is necessary

Section

Compass/ROSE

 

 

Section

can detect some violations of this rule. In particular, false positives may be raised if a variable is freed by a different function than the one that allocated it. Also, it is unable to warn on cases where a call to free() happens inside of a for-loop

Section

Klocwork

Include Page
c:Klocwork_V
c:Klocwork_V
Section

MLK
UFM.FFM

 

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