...
Recommendation | Severity | Likelihood | Remediation Cost | Priority | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MEM05-C | low | likely | medium | P6 | L2 |
Related Vulnerabilities
Search for vulnerabilities resulting from the violation of this rule on the CERT website.
Automated Detection
The Coverity Prevent STACK_USE checker can help detect single stack allocations that are dangerously large, although it will not detect excessive stack use resulting from recursion. Because Coverity Prevent cannot discover all violations of this rule, further verification is necessary.
Related Vulnerabilities
Search for vulnerabilities resulting from the violation of this rule on the CERT website.
References
| Wiki Markup |
|---|
\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 6.7.5.2, "Array declarators", Section 7.20.3, "Memory management functions" \[[ISO/IEC PDTR 24772|AA. C References#ISO/IEC PDTR 24772]\] "GDL Recursion" \[[Loosemore 07|AA. C References#Loosemore 07]\] [Section 3.2.5, "Automatic Storage with Variable Size"|http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html#Variable-Size-Automatic] \[[MISRA 04|AA. C References#MISRA 04]\] Rule 16.2 \[[Seacord 05a|AA. C References#Seacord 05]\] Chapter 4, "Dynamic Memory Management" \[[van Sprundel 06|http://ilja.netric.org/files/Unusual%20bugs.pdf]\] "Stack Overflow" |
...