SEI CERT C Coding Standard
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Risk Assessment Summary

Rule

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

CON01-CLowProbableMedium

P4

L3

CON02-CMediumProbableMedium

P8

L2

CON04-CLowUnlikelyHigh

P1

L3

CON05-CLowProbableHigh

P2

L3

CON06-CMediumProbableMedium

P8

L2

CON07-CMediumProbableMedium

P8

L2

CON08-CLowProbableMedium

P4

L3

CON09-CMediumUnlikelyHigh

P2

L3

Related Rules and Recommendations

CON04-C. Join or detach threads even if their exit status is unimportant
CON30-C. Clean up thread-specific storage
CON31-C. Do not destroy a mutex while it is locked
CON32-C. Prevent data races when accessing bit-fields from multiple threads
CON33-C. Avoid race conditions when using library functions
CON34-C. Declare objects shared between threads with appropriate storage durations
CON35-C. Avoid deadlock by locking in a predefined order
CON37-C. Do not call signal() in a multithreaded program
CON43-C. Do not allow data races in multithreaded code
CON50-CPP. Do not destroy a mutex while it is locked
POS04-C. Avoid using PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL type mutex locks
POS44-C. Do not use signals to terminate threads
POS47-C. Do not use threads that can be canceled asynchronously
POS48-C. Do not unlock or destroy another POSIX thread's mutex
POS49-C. When data must be accessed by multiple threads, provide a mutex and guarantee no adjacent data is also accessed
POS50-C. Declare objects shared between POSIX threads with appropriate storage durations
POS51-C. Avoid deadlock with POSIX threads by locking in predefined order
POS53-C. Do not use more than one mutex for concurrent waiting operations on a condition variable
WIN01-C. Do not forcibly terminate execution