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Search for vulnerabilities resulting from the violation of this rule on the CERT website.

Related Guidelines

CERT C++ Secure Coding Standard: MEM01-CPP. Store a valid value in pointers immediately after deallocation

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Wiki Markup\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. Bibliography#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 7.20.3.2, "The {{free}} function"

\[[ISO/IEC PDTR 24772|AA. Bibliography#ISO/IEC PDTR 24772]\] TR 24772 "DCM Dangling references to stack frames," "XYK Dangling Reference to Heap," and "XZH Off-by-one Error"

MITRE CWE: CWE-416, "Use After Free"

MITRE CWE: CWE-415, "Double Free"

Bibliography

\[[MITRE 2007|AA. Bibliography#MITRE 07]\] [CWE ID 416|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html], "Use After Free," and [CWE ID 415|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html], "Double Free"
\[[Seacord 2005a|AA. Bibliography#Seacord 05]\] Chapter 4, "Dynamic Memory Management"
\[[Plakosh 2005|AA. Bibliography#Plakosh 05]\]

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