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Comment: minor fix to wording of EX0

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EXP01-EX0: A method may dereference an object-typed parameter without guarantee that it is a valid object reference if provided that the method documents that it (potentially) throws a NullPointerException, either via the throws clause of the method or in the method comments.

Risk Assessment

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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

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[ISO/IEC TR 24772:2010

http://www.aitcnet.org/isai/]

Null Pointer Dereference [XYH]

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MITRE CWE

CWE-476. NULL pointer dereference

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[[API 2006

AA. References#API 06]]

[Method doPrivileged()

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

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[[Hovemeyer 2007

AA. References#Hovemeyer 07]]

 

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[[Reasoning 2003

AA. References#Reasoning 03]]

Defect ID 00-0001

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Null Pointer Dereference

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[[SDN 2008

AA. References#SDN 08]]

[Bug ID 6514454

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

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