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Tool | Version | Checker | Description | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Astrée |
| Supported, but no explicit checkerdangling_pointer_use | Supported Astrée reports all accesses to freed allocated memory. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Axivion Bauhaus Suite |
| CertC-MEM30 | Detects memory accesses after its deallocation and double memory deallocations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CodeSonar |
| ALLOC.UAF | Use after free | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Compass/ROSE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USE_AFTER_FREE | Can detect the specific instances where memory is deallocated more than once or read/written to the target of a freed pointer Klocwork | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cppcheck |
| Klocwork
| Klocwork
| UFM.DEREF.MIGHT | LDRA tool suite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Include Page | LDRA_V | LDRA_V | 51 D, 484 S, 112 D | Partially implemented | Parasoft C/C++test | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Include Page | Parasoft_V | Parasoft_V | BD-RES-FREE | Implemented | Parasoft Insure++ | Detects accessing freed memory at runtime | Polyspace Bug Finder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Include Page | Polyspace Bug Finder_V | Polyspace Bug Finder_V | Deallocation of previously deallocated pointer | Memory freed more than once without allocation Standard library string function called with invalid arguments Memory accessed after deallocation | doubleFree deallocret deallocuse | Partially implemented | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cppcheck Premium |
| doubleFree deallocret deallocuse | Partially implemented | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Helix QAC |
| DF4866, DF4867, DF4868, DF4871, DF4872, DF4873 C++3339, C++4303, C++4304 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Klocwork |
| UFM.DEREF.MIGHT UFM.DEREF.MUST UFM.FFM.MIGHT UFM.FFM.MUST UFM.RETURN.MIGHT UFM.RETURN.MUST UFM.USE.MIGHT UFM.USE.MUST | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LDRA tool suite |
| 51 D, 484 S, 112 D | Partially implemented | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parasoft C/C++test |
| CERT_C-MEM30-a | Do not use resources that have been freed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parasoft Insure++ | Runtime analysis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PC-lint Plus |
| 449, 2434 | Fully supported | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Polyspace Bug Finder |
| Checks for:
Rule partially covered. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PRQA QA-C | 9.1 | 1769, 1770 | PRQA QA-C++ | 4.2 | 3339, 4303, 4304 | PVS-Studio |
| V586, V774 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Splint |
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| TrustInSoft Analyzer |
| dangling_pointer | Exhaustively verified (see one compliant and one non-compliant example). |
Related Vulnerabilities
VU#623332 describes a double-free vulnerability in the MIT Kerberos 5 function krb5_recvauth().
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Bibliography
| [ISO/IEC 9899:20112024] | 7.2224.3, "Memory Management Functions" |
| [Kernighan 1988] | Section 7.8.5, "Storage Management" |
| [OWASP Freed Memory] | |
| [MIT 2005] | |
| [Seacord 2013b] | Chapter 4, "Dynamic Memory Management" |
| [Viega 2005] | Section 5.2.19, "Using Freed Memory" |
| [VU#623332] | |
| [xorl 2009] | CVE-2009-1364: LibWMF Pointer Use after free() |
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