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This rule appears in the C++ Secure Coding Standard as MEM00-CPP. Allocate and free memory in the same module, at the same level of abstraction.

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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 7.20.3, "Memory Management Functions"
\[[ISO/IEC PDTR 24772|AA. C References#ISO/IEC PDTR 24772]\] "XYL Memory Leak"
\[[MIT 04|AA. C References#MIT 04]\]
\[[MITRE 07|AA. C References#MITRE 07]\] [CWE ID 416|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html], "Use After Free," and [CWE ID 415|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html], "Double Free"
\[[Plakosh 05|AA. C References#Plakosh 05]\]
\[[Seacord 05a|AA. C References#Seacord 05]\] Chapter 4, "Dynamic Memory Management"

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