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Rule

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

DCL30-C

3 (high)

2 (probable)

1 (high)

P6

L2

Automated Detection

The LDRA tool suite V 7.6.0 is able to detect violations of this rule.

Related Vulnerabilities

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

Automated Detection

Coverity Prevent. The RETURN_LOCAL checker finds many instances where a function will return a pointer to a local stack variable. Coverity Prevent cannot discover all violations of this rule, so further verification is necessary.

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