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Incorrect Pointer Scaling

Incorrect Pointer Scaling

CWE-468

Short description

In C and C++, one may often accidentally refer to the wrong memory due to the semantics of when math operations are implicitly scaled.

Best practices to prevent this CWE

Phase: Architecture and Design

Use a platform with high-level memory abstractions.

Phase: Implementation

Always use array indexing instead of direct pointer manipulation.

Phase: Architecture and Design

Use technologies for preventing buffer overflows.

Recently published CVEs

CVE-2024-1915
CVE-2024-0802

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