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Search for vulnerabilities resulting from the violation of this rule on the CERT website.
Automated Detection
Compass/ROSE could detect some violations of this rule simply by collecting all environment variables referenced by a program and reporting if two variables differ only by capitalization (eg "TEST" vs "Test").
References
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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 7.20.4, "Communication with the environment" \[[ISO/IEC PDTR 24772|AA. C References#ISO/IEC PDTR 24772]\] "XYS Executing or Loading Untrusted Code" \[[MSDN|AA. C References#MSDN]\] [{{getenv()}}|http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tehxacec(VS.71).aspx] |
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