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MAINTENANCE NOTICE (UPDATE - 23 October 2017)

On 24 October 2017, we will be performing maintenance on this wiki between 7:59pm - 9:00pm EDT (23:59 UTC - 01:00 UTC 25 October 2017).  Access during this period may be limited. The maintenance is to upgrade the version of the wiki. We don't expect any significant changes to the user experience based on this upgrade, and once it's complete, behavior should be the same as before (other than features and defect remediation from the update).

MAINTENANCE NOTICE:

For a few weeks beginning 23 October 2017, we will be performing occasional maintenance on this CERT Secure Coding wiki.  This is a general notification announcing our maintenance plans.

We are planning the maintenance to minimize the impact to users. There will be several phases of maintenance, and we will provide more detailed information for each phase, such as expected maintenance periods and expected impacts.  During the most significant periods of maintenance, we will provide a read-only version of the wiki, but not allow editing.  That should only affect contributors, and not the vast majority of users of the system.  

When the maintenance is complete, user accounts and histories will be retained for registered users.  But, registered users will need to reset your password through the site’s “forgot password” mechanism.  We will provide more information and instructions before and after that phase of the maintenance.

We expect all maintenance to be complete by early November.  If you have any concerns, please send email to info@sei.cmu.edu, referencing the Secure Coding wiki.

 

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The C rules and recommendations in this wiki are a work in progress and reflect the current thinking of the secure coding community. Because this is a development website, many pages are incomplete or contain errors. As rules and recommendations mature, they are published in report or book form as official releases. These releases are issued as dictated by the needs and interests of the secure software development community.

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Front Matter  

 

Rules

Back Matter

  

Recommendations

 

Secure C Coding Books and Downloads
SEI CERT C Coding StandardThe CERT C Coding Standard, 2016 Edition provides rules to help programmers ensure that their code complies with the new C11 standard and earlier standards, including C99.  It is downloadable as a PDF.  (errata)

  

Secure Coding in C and C++ identifies the root causes of today's most widespread software vulnerabilities, shows how they can be exploited, reviews the potential consequences, and presents secure alternatives.

Source Code Analysis Laboratory (SCALe)
SCALe offers conformance testing of C  language software systems against the CERT C Secure Coding Standard.
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Thank You!

We acknowledge the contributions of the following folks , and we look forward to seeing your name here as well.  

Rules vs. Recomendations

This coding standard consists of rules and recommendations, collectively referred to as guidelines. Rules are meant to provide normative requirements for code, whereas recommendations are meant to provide guidance that, when followed, should improve the safety, reliability, and security of software systems. Learn more about the differences.

Linking to Our Pages

Link to guidelines using the Tiny Link under Tools→Link to this Page... (This URL will not change if the name of the guideline changes.)   

Information for Editors

  • To eliminate a section from the lists above, label it section and void.
  • To have a section listed as a recommendation, label it section and recommendation.
  • To have a section listed as a rule, label it section and rule.  

 

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