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Title:	MEM35-C. Allocate sufficient memory for an object
Author:	Jeffrey Gennari	Jun 20, 2006
Last Changed by:	Jill Britton	Apr 20, 2023
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/ANYxBQ
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (2)     Page: STR31-C. Guarantee that storage for strings has sufficient space for character data and the null terminator     Page: ARR01-C. Do not apply the sizeof operator to a pointer when taking the size of an array

Parent Page     Page: Rule 08. Memory Management (MEM)

• fortify
• compass/rose
• coverity
• cwe-131
• cwe-190
• nptc
• rose-possible
• android-applicable
• rule
• mem
• nptc-intent
• in-cpp

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Apr 20, 2023 05:23	Jill Britton	View Changes
Mar 22, 2023 14:37	Anirban Gangopadhyay	View Changes
Jan 19, 2023 09:08	Jill Britton	View Changes
Jan 18, 2023 11:53	Jill Britton	View Changes
May 19, 2022 10:26	Jon O'Donnell

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