Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

...

Rule

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

OBJ15- J

low

probable

high

P2

L3

Automated Detection

TODOThe Coverity Prevent Version 5.0 MUTABLE_COMPARISON checker can detect the instances where compareTo method is reading from a non constant field. If the non-constant field is modified, the value of compareTo might change, which may break program invariants.

Related Vulnerabilities

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

...