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Rule

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

ARR34-CPP

high

probable

high

P6

L2

Related Vulnerabilities

The fun with erase() article by Chris Rohlf discusses the exploit potential of a program that calls vector::erase() with invalid iterator ranges.

Search for vulnerabilities resulting from the violation of this rule on the CERT website.

Bibliography

Wiki Markup\[[Sutter 05|AA. Bibliography#Sutter 05]\] Item 83: Use a checked STL implementation. \
[[Meyers 01|AA. Bibliography#Meyers 01] \] Item 21: Always have comparison functions return false for equal values. \[
[ISO/IEC 14882-2003|AA. Bibliography#ISO/IEC 14882-2003] \] Section 24: Iterators Library.

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ARR33-CPP. Guarantee that copies are made into storage of sufficient size      06. Arrays and the STL (ARR)      ARR35-CPP. Do not allow loops to iterate beyond the end of an array or container