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C detectors (34/34)

Logging of sensitive informationInsecure Use Of ChrootDeadlock And Lock InconsistencyUnsafe File ExtensionOS command injectionIncorrect Use Of FreeUse Of Uninitialized VariableInsecure Use strcat fnSQL injectionBitwise Operator On Signed OperandInsecure use gets fnRandom fd exhaustionRedundant Free UsageInsecure Use MemsetDivide By Zero.Return Stack AddressUnchecked Return ValueIncorrect Format SpecifierUnhandled Expression ResultPath traversalImproper Input ValidationOut Of Bounds ReadInteger OverflowInsecure use strtok functionImproper size of a memory bufferincomplete-cleanupNull pointer dereferenceInsecure Temporary File Or DirectoryInsecure Buffer AccessIncorrect Use Ato FnLoose File PermissionsExposure of Sensitive InformationOut-of-bounds WriteString Equality

Medium

Showing all detectors for the C language with medium severity.

Null pointer dereference

We observed that a NULL pointer dereference occurs when a program attempts to access the value referenced by a pointer that is currently set to NULL.