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Dereferencing a null pointer can lead to a denial of service. In multithreaded programs, null pointer dereferences can violate cache coherency policies and can cause resource leaks.

Recommendation Rule

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

EXP01-J

low

likely

high

P3

L3

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CERT C Secure Coding Standard

EXP34-C. Do not dereference null pointers

CERT C++ Secure Coding Standard

EXP34-CPP. Ensure a null pointer is not dereferenced

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[ISO/IEC TR 24772:2010

http://www.aitcnet.org/isai/]

"Null Pointer Dereference [XYH]"

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MITRE CWE

CWE-476, "NULL Pointer Dereference"

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[[API 2006

AA. Bibliography#API 06]]

[method doPrivileged()

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/security/AccessController.html#doPrivileged(java.security.PrivilegedAction)]

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[[Hovemeyer 2007

AA. Bibliography#Hovemeyer 07]]

 

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[[Reasoning 2003

AA. Bibliography#Reasoning 03]]

Defect ID 00-0001

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Null Pointer Dereference

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[[SDN 2008

AA. Bibliography#SDN 08]]

[Bug ID 6514454

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6514454]

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