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13. Application Programming Interfaces (API)

Created by Robert Seacord, last modified on Dec 09, 2008

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Recommendations

API01-C. Library functions should validate their parameters

API02-C. Functions that read or write to or from an array should take an argument to specify the source or target size

API03-C. Create consistent interfaces across related function calls

API04-C. Provide a simple error checking mechanism

API05-C. Support compile-time checking

API06-C. Make failures obvious

API07-C. Enforce type safety

Rules

Risk Assessment Summary

Recommendation	Severity	Likelihood	Remediation Cost	Priority	Level
API00-C	medium	probable	medium	P8	L2

Rule	Severity	Likelihood	Remediation Cost	Priority	Level
API30-C	medium	unlikely	low	P6	L2

CERT C Secure Coding Standard

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