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36 Comments

  1. How can I access the information below.

    [CERT 2006a] CERT/CC. CERT/CC Statistics 1988–2006.  the URL become "page not found" 

    [CERT 2006b] CERT/CC. US-CERT's Technical Cyber Security Alerts. the URL become "2015 Alerts", not 2006.

    1. For "CERT/CC Statistics 1988–2006", I'm not sure what the original statistics is about. We may be able to find the alternative data source at https://www.cert.org/historical/index.cfm but not sure.


      For the latter, it seems US-CERT no longer provide TAs older than 2009. If it refers to a specific TA, then we may find a original TA mirrored in some web archive though.

  2. [Burch 2006] Burch, Hal, Long, Fred, & Seacord, Robert C. Specifications for Managed Strings (CMU/SEI-2006-TR-006). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006.

    The URL(below) is a second edition, 2010. 

    http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetID=9531

    The URL 2006 is 

    http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetid=8083

    Please harmonize the reference and URL.

    1. Updated. Thanks for pointing it out.

  3. [DISA 2008] DISA. Application Security and Development Security Technical Implementation Guide, Version 2, Release 1. July 2008.

    The URL is "not found".

    APPLICATION SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE Version 3, Release 10

    can download from http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/Documents/U_Application_Security_and_Development_V3R10_STIG.zip

    1. Updated with the suggested link, thanks.

  4. [DOD 5220] U.S. Department of Defense. DoD Standard 5220.22-M (Word document).

    The URL

    http://security.ouhsc.edu/docs/policies/approved/DoD_5220.doc

    cannot access today.

    The document [DOD 5220] can access from

    http://www.dss.mil/documents/odaa/nispom2006-5220.pdf

  5. [Griffiths 2006] Griffiths, Andrew. Clutching at Straws: When You Can Shift the Stack Pointer. 2006.

    The URL

    http://felinemenace.org/papers/p63-0x0e_Shifting_the_Stack_Pointer.txt

    cannot access today.

    French text is http://arsouyes.org/index.php?id=248

    Are there any English text?

    1. It's on the phrack magazine archive: http://phrack.org/archives/issues/63/14.txt

      I've updated the link. Thanks.

  6. [Haddad 2005] Haddad, Ibrahim. "Secure Coding in C and C++: An Interview with Robert Seacord, Senior Vulnerability Analyst at CERT." Linux World Magazine, November 2005.

    The url may be http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetid=52665

    The reference of "Secure Coding in C and C++ 2nd edition" may be http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/asset_files/Book/2013_014_102_54215.pdf

    1. Updated the first one. Thanks.

  7.  [ilja 2006] ilja. "readlink abuse." ilja's blog. August 13, 2006.

    The URL http://blogs.23.nu/ilja/stories/12551/ can not access today.

  8. [ISO/IEC 10646:2003] ISO/IEC (International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission). Information Technology—Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) (ISO/IEC 10646:2003). Geneva, Switzerland: International Organization for Standardization, 2003.

    [ISO/IEC 10646:2012] ISO/IEC. Information technology—Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) (ISO/IEC 10646:2012). Geneva, Switzerland: ISO, 2012.

    Latest version can download from Freely Available Standard : http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html

    Now, ISO/IEC 10646:2014 can download.


  9. [ISO/IEC 9899:1990] ISO/IEC. Programming Languages—C (ISO/IEC 9899:1990). Geneva, Switzerland: ISO, 1990.

    [ISO/IEC 9899:1999] ISO/IEC. Programming Languages—C, 2nd ed (ISO/IEC 9899:1999). Geneva, Switzerland: ISO, 1999.

    [ISO/IEC 9899:2011] ISO/IEC. Programming Languages—C, 3rd ed (ISO/IEC 9899:2011). Geneva, Switzerland: ISO, 2011.

    A Late draft can download from ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG14 web. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/

     A late draft of C11 as of 2011-04-02 is N1570.

    1. I don't think we should be pointing people to the public drafts of the standards since there are differences between the draft and the published standard. However, it is fine to point people to the ISO store.

  10. [ISO/IEC 14882:2003] ISO/IEC. Programming Languages—C++, Second Edition (ISO/IEC 14882-2003). Geneva, Switzerland: ISO, 2003.

    [ISO/IEC 14882:2011] ISO/IEC. Information Technology—Programming Languages—C++, Third Edition (ISO/IEC 14882-2011). Geneva, Switzerland: ISO, 2011.

    latest public available draft can download from ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21 http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/
    1. I don't think we should be pointing people to the public drafts of the standards since there are differences between the draft and the published standard. However, it is fine to point people to the ISO store.

  11. [ISO/IEC 23360-1:2006] ISO/IEC. Linux Standard Base (LSB) Core Specification 3.1—Part 1: Generic Specification. Geneva, Switzerland: ISO, 2006.

    The URL http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic.pdf

    can not access today.

    LSB_3.1.0 can download from

    https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic.pdf

  12. [ISO/IEC 646:1991] ISO/IEC. Information Technology: ISO 7-Bit Coded Character Set for Information Interchange (ISO/IEC 646-1991). Geneva, Switzerland: ISO, 1991.

    This 6th Edition ECMA-006 corresponds to the 3rd edition of ISO 646 issued in 199

    It can download from http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-006.pdf

     

  13. [ISO/IEC PDTR 24731-2] Extensions to the C Library—Part II: Dynamic Allocation Functions. Geneva, Switzerland: ISO, August 2007.

    The URL is http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1248.pdf  Date: 2007-08-15

    The latest available document is http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1337.pdf Date: 2008-08-10

    The type 2 TR is published as 

    ISO/IEC TR 24731-2:2010 Information technology -- Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces -- Extensions to the C library -- Part 2: Dynamic Allocation Functions

    http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=51678

  14. [ISO/IEC TR 24772:2013] ISO/IEC TR 24772:2013. Information Technology—Programming Languages—Guidance to Avoiding Vulnerabilities in Programming Languages through Language Selection and Use.  Geneva, Switzerland: ISO, March 2013.

    is  freely available from http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c061457_ISO_IEC_TR_24772_2013.zip

     

  15. [Jones 2004] Jones, Nigel. Learn a New Trick with the offsetof() Macro. Embedded Systems Programming, March 2004.

    The url http://www.netrino.com/Articles/OffsetOf/index.php

    become "The requested page "/Articles/OffsetOf/index.php" could not be found."

    http://www.embedded.com/design/prototyping-and-development/4024941/Learn-a-new-trick-with-the-offsetof--macro

    or 

    http://m.eetindia.co.in/ARTICLES/2004APR/EEIOL_2004APR03_EMS_TA.pdf?SOURCES=DOWNLOAD

    may be the contents.

  16. [Keil 2008] Keil, an ARM Company. "Floating Point Support." RealView Libraries and Floating Point Support Guide, 2008.

    The url

    http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/armlib/armlib_bihbjiea.htm

    become "HTTP Error 404".

    "Floating Point Support" may be

    http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/armlib/armlib_chr1358938940724.htm

     

  17. [Lipson 2000] Lipson, Howard & Fisher, David. "Survivability: A New Technical and Business Perspective on Security," 33–39. Proceedings of the 1999 New Security Paradigms Workshop. Caledon Hills, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 22–24, 1999. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2000.

    No url. It may be

    http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.32.9327&rank=1

  18. [Lipson 2006] Lipson, Howard. Evolutionary Systems Design: Recognizing Changes in Security and Survivability Risks (CMU/SEI-2006-TN-027).  Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006.

    No url. It may be

    http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/asset_files/TechnicalNote/2006_004_001_14714.pdf

  19. [Mell 2007] P. Mell, Scarfone, K., & Romanosky, S. "A Complete Guide to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System Version 2.0." FIRST, June 2007.

    No URL. It may be

    http://www.first.org/cvss/cvss-guide.pdf

  20. [Michael 2004] Michael, M.M. "Hazard Pointers: Safe Memory Reclamation for Lock-Free Objects." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 15, 8 (2004).

    No URL. It may be

    http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/michael/ieeetpds-2004.pdf

  21. [Miller 1999] Miller, Todd C., & de Raadt, Theo. strlcpy and strlcat—Consistent, Safe, String Copy and Concatenation. In Proceedings of the FREENIX Track, 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 6–11, 1999, Monterey, California, USABerkeley, CA: USENIX Association, 1999.

    No URL. It may be

    https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix99/full_papers/millert/millert.pdf

    1. Kiyoshi,

      You should have edit permission now if you want to make the updates directly on this page.

      Thanks,
      rCs

  22. Hi,

    found an URL not working:

     [Lockheed Martin 2005] Lockheed Martin. Joint Strike Fighter Air Vehicle C++ Coding Standards for the System Development and Demonstration Program. Document Number 2RDU00001 Rev C., December 2005.

    http://www.research.att.com/~bs/JSF-AV-rules.pdf


    Found an alternative: http://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf

    Best regards

     

     

  23. [Wheeler 2003] Wheeler, David. Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO, v3.010


    Uptaded to new version: v3.72, 2015-09-19