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ToolVersionCheckerDescription
GCC
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GCC_V
GCC_V
 

Can detect violation of this rule when the -Wstrict-prototypes flag is used. However, it cannot detect violations involving variadic functions, such as the open() example described earlier.

Compass/ROSE  

can detect some violations of this rule. In particular, it ensures that all calls to open() supply exactly two arguments if the second argument does not involve O_CREAT, and exactly three arguments if the second argument does involve O_CREAT.

LDRA tool suite

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Partially implemented.
PRQA QA-C
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3001Partially implemented.

Related Vulnerabilities

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

Related Guidelines

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TR 17961(Draft) Calling functions with incorrect arguments [argcomp]
ISO/IEC TR 24772

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Subprogram signature mismatch

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[OTR]
MISRA-CRule 16.6
MITRE CWE

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Function call with incorrectly specified arguments

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Bibliography

[CVE]CVE-2006-1174
[ISO/IEC 9899:2011]Foreword and Section 6.9.1, "Function Definitions"
[Spinellis 2006]Section 2.6.1, "Incorrect

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