CWE CATEGORY: CERT C Secure Coding Standard (2008) Chapter 6 - Floating Point (FLP)
Category ID: 739
Vulnerability Mapping:
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Summary
Weaknesses in this category are related to the rules and recommendations in the Floating Point (FLP) chapter of the CERT C Secure Coding Standard (2008).
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that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.
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that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.
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(this CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities)
Reason: Category
Rationale:
This entry is a Category. Using categories for mapping has been discouraged since 2019. Categories are informal organizational groupings of weaknesses that can help CWE users with data aggregation, navigation, and browsing. However, they are not weaknesses in themselves.
Comments:
See member weaknesses of this category.
Notes
Relationship
In the 2008 version of the CERT C Secure Coding standard, the following rules were mapped to the following CWE IDs:
CWE-369 FLP03-C Detect and handle floating point errors
CWE-681 FLP33-C Convert integers to floating point for floating point operations
CWE-681 FLP34-C Ensure that floating point conversions are within range of the new type
CWE-682 FLP32-C Prevent or detect domain and range errors in math functions
CWE-682 FLP33-C Convert integers to floating point for floating point operations
CWE-686 FLP31-C Do not call functions expecting real values with complex values
References
[REF-597] Robert C. Seacord. "The CERT C Secure Coding Standard". 1st Edition. Addison-Wesley Professional. 2008-10-14.
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