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This rule appears in the C++ Secure Coding Standard as MEM30-CPP. Do not access freed memory.

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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 7.20.3.2, "The {{free}} function"
\[[ISO/IEC PDTR 24772|AA. C References#ISO/IEC PDTR 24772]\] "DCM Dangling references to stack frames" and "XYK Dangling Reference to Heap"
\[[Kernighan 88|AA. C References#Kernighan 88]\] Section 7.8.5, "Storage Management"
\[[MISRA 04|AA. C References#MISRA 04]\] Rule 17.6
\[[MITRE 07|AA. C References#MITRE 07]\] [CWE ID 416|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html], "Use After Free"
\[[OWASP Freed Memory|AA. C References#OWASP Freed Memory]\]
\[[Seacord 05a|AA. C References#Seacord 05]\] Chapter 4, "Dynamic Memory Management"
\[[Viega 05|AA. C References#Viega 05]\] Section 5.2.19, "Using freed memory"

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