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This rule appears in the C++ Secure Coding Standard as STR31-CPP. Guarantee that storage for character arrays has sufficient space for character data and the null terminator.

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\[[Dowd 06|AA. Bibliography#Dowd 06]\] Chapter 7, "Program Building Blocks" (Loop Constructs 327-336)
\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. Bibliography#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 7.1.1, "Definitions of terms," Section 7.21, "String handling <string.h>," Section 5.1.2.2.1, "Program startup," and Section 7.20.4.5, "The getenv function"
\[[ISO/IEC PDTR 24772|AA. Bibliography#ISO/IEC PDTR 24772]\] "CJM String Termination," "XYW Buffer Overflow in Stack", and "XYB Buffer Overflow in Heap"
\[[MITRE|AA. Bibliography#MITRE]\] [CWE ID 119|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html], "Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of an Allocated Memory Buffer"
\[MITRE\] [CWE ID 120|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/120.html], "Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')"
\[MITRE\] [CWE ID 193|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/193.html], "Off-by-one Error"
\[[Seacord 05a|AA. Bibliography#Seacord 05]\] Chapter 2, "Strings"
\[[xorl 2009|AA. Bibliography#xorl 2009]\] ["FreeBSD-SA-09:11: NTPd Remote Stack Based Buffer Overflows"|http://xorl.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/freebsd-sa-0911-ntpd-remote-stack-based-buffer-overflows/]

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