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Comment: Added Automatic Detection table and added Axivion Bauhaus entry

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Vulnerabilities are frequently introduced while porting code. A buffer overflow vulnerability may result, for example, if an incorrectly defined integer constant is used to determine the size of a buffer. It is always best to write portable code, especially when there is no performance overhead for doing so.

Recommendation

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

INT17-C

High

Probable

Low

P18

L1

Automated Detection

Tool

Version

Checker

Description

Axivion Bauhaus Suite

Include Page
Axivion Bauhaus Suite_V
Axivion Bauhaus Suite_V

CertC-INT17

Related Vulnerabilities

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

Related Guidelines

SEI CERT C++ Coding StandardVOID INT17-CPP. Define integer constants in an implementation-independent manner

Bibliography

[Dewhurst 2002]Gotcha #25, "#define Literals"
[ISO/IEC 9899:2011]Subclause 6.2.6, "Representations of Types"
Subclause 6.3.1.3, "Signed and Unsigned Integers"

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