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Automated Detection
Compass/ROSE could can detect violations of this rule by reporting instances of two calls to getenv() and seeing if the pointer that holds the result of the first getenv() call is still referenced after the second getenv() callrecommendation.
References
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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 7.20.4, "Communication with the environment"
\[[ISO/IEC PDTR 24731-2|AA. C References#ISO/IEC PDTR 24731-2-2007]\]
\[[MSDN|AA. C References#MSDN]\] [{{\_dupenv_s()}} and {{\_wdupenv_s()}}|http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175774.aspx], [{{getenv_s()}}, {{\_wgetenv_s()}}|http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tb2sfw2z(VS.80).aspx]
\[[Open Group 04|AA. C References#Open Group 04]\] Chapter 8, "Environment Variables", [{{strdup}}|http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strdup.html]
\[[Viega 03|AA. C References#Viega 03]\] Section 3.6, "Using Environment Variables Securely" |
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