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Title:	STR50-CPP. Guarantee that storage for strings has sufficient space for character data and the null terminator
Author:	Justin Pincar	Aug 13, 2008
Last Changed by:	Francesco Mariani	Jul 08, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/i3w-BQ
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SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard (1)     Page: CTR52-CPP. Guarantee that library functions do not overflow

Parent Page     Page: Rule 05. Characters and Strings (STR)

• review-dms
• nptc
• review
• rule
• review-ajb
• str
• nptc-aliasing

Time	Editor
Jul 08, 2025 06:40	Francesco Mariani	View Changes
Jun 25, 2025 12:50	Amy Gale	View Changes
REM Cost Reform
Jan 30, 2025 22:16	Amy Gale	View Changes
CodeSonar entry whitespace
Jan 19, 2023 06:58	Jill Britton	View Changes
Nov 29, 2022 08:52	Alexander Wagner

External Links (7)
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcstr50cpp.…
    https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/cplusp…
    https://www.sonarsource.com/products/codeanalyzers/sonarcfa…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/cplusplus/Polys…

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