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Tool | Version | Checker | Description | ||||||
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Compass/ROSE | |||||||||
Coverity | 7.5 | CHECKED_RETURN | Finds inconsistencies in how function call return values are handled | ||||||
LDRA tool suite |
| 45 D | Partially implemented | ||||||
Parasoft C/C++test | 9.5 | MRM-34 | |||||||
Parasoft Insure++ | Runtime detection | ||||||||
PRQA QA-C++ | 4.1 | 4632, 3225, 3226, 3227, 3228, 3229 |
Related Vulnerabilities
The vulnerability in Adobe Flash [VU#159523] arises because Flash neglects to check the return value from calloc()
. Even though calloc()
returns NULL
, Flash does not attempt to read or write to the return value. Instead, it attempts to write to an offset from the return value. Dereferencing NULL
usually results in a program crash, but dereferencing an offset from NULL
allows an exploit to succeed without crashing the program.
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