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This rule appears in the C++ Secure Coding Standard as MEM34-CPP. Only free memory allocated dynamically.

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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 7.20.3, "Memory management functions"
\[[MITRE 07|AA. C References#MITRE 07]\] [CWE ID 590|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/590.html], "Free of Invalid Pointer Not on the Heap"
\[[Seacord 05|AA. C References#Seacord 05]\] Chapter 4, "Dynamic Memory Management"

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