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The Coverity Prevent Version 5.0 FORWARD_NULL checker can detect the instance where reference is checked against null but then dereferenced anyway.

Related Guidelines

MITRE CWE

CWE-476

CERT C Secure Coding Standard

"EXP34-C. Do not dereference null pointers"

CERT C++ Secure Coding Standard

"EXP34-CPP. Ensure a null pointer is not dereferenced"

MITRE CWE

CWE ID 476, "NULL Pointer Dereference"

Bibliography

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[[API 2006

AA. Bibliography#API 06]]

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http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/security/AccessController.html#doPrivileged(java.security.PrivilegedAction)]

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[[Hovemeyer 2007

AA. Bibliography#Hovemeyer 07]]

 

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[[Reasoning 2003

AA. Bibliography#Reasoning 03]]

Defect ID 00-0001

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Null Pointer Dereference

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[[SDN 2008

AA. Bibliography#SDN 08]]

[Bug ID 6514454

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6514454]

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