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Rule

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

ENV30-C

low

probable

medium

P4

L3

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Automated Detection

Compass/ROSE could detect violations of this rule by noting attempts to modify any variable that holds the result of getenv(). A stronger approach would be to report if the result of getenv() is assigned to a (non-const) char*.

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References

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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 7.20.4.5, "The {{getenv}} function"
\[[Open Group 04|AA. C References#Open Group 04]\] [getenv|http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/getenv.html]

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