SEI CERT C Coding Standard

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Risk Assessment

While it is relatively rare for a violation of this rule to result in a security vulnerability, it could more easily result in loss or misinterpreted data.

Rule

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

INT06-A

1 (low)

2 (low)

2 (medium)

P2

L3

References

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\[[Klein 02|AA. C References#Klein 02]]
\[[ISO/IEC 9899-1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]] Sections 7.20.1.4, "The strtol, strtoll, strtoul, and strtoull functions," 7.20.1.2, "The atoi, atol, and atoll functions," and 7.19.6.7, "The sscanf function"