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This rule appears in the C++ Secure Coding Standard as EXP34-CPP. Ensure a null pointer is not dereferenced.

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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 6.3.2.3, "Pointers"
\[[ISO/IEC PDTR 24772|AA. C References#ISO/IEC PDTR 24772]\] "HFC Pointer casting and pointer type changes" and "XYH Null Pointer Dereference"
\[[Jack 07|AA. C References#Jack 07]\]
\[[MITRE 07|AA. C References#MITRE 07]\] [CWE ID 476|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html], "NULL Pointer Dereference"
\[[van Sprundel 06|AA. C References#van Sprundel 06]\]
\[[Viega 05|AA. C References#Viega 05]\] Section 5.2.18, "Null-pointer dereference"

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