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Tool | Version | Checker | Description | ||||||
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| STACK_USE | Can help detect single stack allocations that are dangerously large, although it will not detect excessive stack use resulting from recursion | |||||||
| PRQA QA-C |
| 1520 | Partially implemented |
Related Vulnerabilities
Stack overflow has been implicated in Toyota unintended acceleration cases, where Camry and other Toyota vehicles accelerated unexpectedly. Michael Barr testified at the trial that a stack overflow could corrupt the critical variables of the operating system, because they were located in memory adjacent to the top of the stack [Samek 2014].
Search for vulnerabilities resulting from the violation of this rule on the CERT website.
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| [Loosemore 2007] | Section 3.2.5, "Automatic Storage with Variable Size" |
| [Samek 2014] | Are We Shooting Ourselves in the Foot with Stack Overflow? Monday, February 17th, 2014 by Miro Samek |
| [Seacord 2013] | Chapter 4, "Dynamic Memory Management" |
| [van Sprundel 2006] | "Stack Overflow" |
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