CWE CATEGORY: CERT C Secure Coding Standard (2008) Chapter 3 - Declarations and Initialization (DCL)
Category ID: 736
Vulnerability Mapping:
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Summary
Weaknesses in this category are related to the rules and recommendations in the Declarations and Initialization (DCL) chapter of the CERT C Secure Coding Standard (2008).
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Base - a weakness
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.
Base - a weakness
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.
Variant - a weakness
that is linked to a certain type of product, typically involving a specific language or technology. More specific than a Base weakness. Variant level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 3 to 5 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource.
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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.
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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-547 DCL06-C Use meaningful symbolic constants to represent literal values in program logic
CWE-628 DCL10-C Maintain the contract between the writer and caller of variadic functions
CWE-686 DCL35-C Do not invoke a function using a type that does not match the function definition
References
[REF-597] Robert C. Seacord. "The CERT C Secure Coding Standard". 1st Edition. Addison-Wesley Professional. 2008-10-14.
Content History
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2008-11-24 (CWE 1.1, 2008-11-24)
CWE Content Team
MITRE
Modifications
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2017-11-08
CWE Content Team
MITRE
updated Description, Name, Relationship_Notes
2019-01-03
CWE Content Team
MITRE
updated Description, Name, References
2023-04-27
CWE Content Team
MITRE
updated Mapping_Notes
2023-06-29
CWE Content Team
MITRE
updated Mapping_Notes
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2017-11-08
CERT C Secure Coding Section 02 - Declarations and Initialization (DCL)
2019-01-03
CERT C Secure Coding (2008 Version) Section 02 - Declarations and Initialization (DCL)
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